Shrimp

New England shrimp fishery to stay shuttered as waters warm

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — New England’s commercial shrimp fishery will remain shut down because of concerns about the health of the crustacean’s population amid warming ocean temperatures.

St. Stanislaus HIgh School seniors Dayton Hall (L) and Jackson Mountjoy use calipers to measure a tiny baby oyster at the school's oyster garden in Bay St. Louis, Miss., on Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. The school is among more than 50 locations in Mississippi and more than 1,000 nationwide -- most of them private docks -- where people raise oysters to help build reefs off their states' coasts. (AP Photo/Janet McConnaughey)

Volunteers raise oyster gardens to help restore reefs

FILE — In this Jan. 6, 2012 file photo, northern shrimp, also called pink shrimp, lay on snow aboard a trawler in the Gulf of Maine. Maine's long-shuttered shrimp fishing business has a chance to reopen in the coming winter, but the warming of the ocean threatens to keep the industry shut down. A regulatory board is scheduled to make a decision in the fall of 2021 about whether to extend a moratorium on the shrimp fishery that is scheduled to end this year. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Warm waters further threaten depleted Maine shrimp fishery

On Saturday, May 22, 2021, Grand Chenier, La., resident Margaret Little looks at some decorations and objects that had been around her home and that she recovered after Hurricane Laura destroyed her home last year. (AP Photo/Rebecca Santana)

Louisiana coast still hurting from storms, bracing for more

FILE - In this Sunday, June 28, 2015 file photo, sergeant major fish, a type of damselfish, swim near the surface of the Red Sea in the resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, south Sinai, Egypt. Not only are humans changing the surface and temperature of the planet, but also its sounds – and those shifts are detectable even in the open ocean, according to research published Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Under the sea, humans have changed ocean sounds

Boat flips after recreational shrimp trawl snags; 1 dead

SLIDELL, La. (AP) — A 62-year-old man died Thursday and another man was injured after their recreational shrimping skiff overturned in a lake north of New Orleans while he and a friend were out trawling.

New England shrimp industry could reopen for recreation only

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The New England shrimp fishing industry could eventually reopen for recreational fishing.

New England shrimp industry should not restart, experts say

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A group of experts is recommending to keep New England’s shrimp fishing industry closed down because of concerns about the health of the population.

Decision coming on whether to allow Maine shrimp fishing

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An oversight board is slated to make a decision next month on whether to allow shrimp fishing off New England this winter.

Mississippi shrimp season to open this week

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s 2021-2022 shrimp season opens this week.

The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources set the official shrimp season to open at 6 a.m. on Thursday in state territorial waters, WLOX-TV reported.

Shrimp season set to open in Georgia’s coastal waters

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Shrimp season is set to open this week in waters off the Georgia coast.

The commercial and recreational shrimp season opens at 8 a.m.

Louisiana closing some shrimping areas on Sunday

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana is closing some areas to shrimping so large numbers of white shrimp found there can grow to marketable size, the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries said in a news release Thursday.

Environmental group to sue over sea turtle protections

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An environmental group has told the National Marine Fisheries Service that it’s going to court over reductions in plans to keep endangered and threatened sea turtles from drowning in shrimp nets.

Masses of shrimp eggs leave visible slick on Utah lake

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Tiny shrimp eggs have been showing up in such huge numbers in Utah’s Great Salt Lake that some parts of the lake look covered with an oil slick.

FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2020, file photo, Silver Belle, a critically endangered Kemp's Ridley sea turtle, heads for the ocean in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., after being released by Sea Turtle Recovery. Louisiana will help inshore shrimpers buy turtle escape hatches that will be required next year for some boats, Gov. John Bel Edwards said Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020. The program affects only Louisiana shrimpers requiring turtle excluder devices in some skimmer trawls to take effect in all Gulf and southeastern Atlantic states on April 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry, File)

Louisiana helps inshore shrimpers buy turtle escape hatches

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana will help inshore shrimpers buy turtle escape hatches that will be required next year for some boats in the Gulf of Mexico and southeastern Atlantic, Gov.

This photo taken July 13, 2020 at Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park shows a stretch of the lake's northeast shore looking north from Sand Harbor toward Incline Village, Nev. Lake Tahoe's fluctuating clarity took a dive last year, worsening by about 8 feet during an especially cold and wet winter as sedimentation, algae growth and a tiny invasive shrimp continue to pose restoration challenges. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner).

Lake Tahoe’s fluctuating clarity worsens amid wet winter

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Lake Tahoe’s fluctuating clarity got worse last year during an especially cold and wet winter as sedimentation, algae growth and a tiny invasive shrimp continued to pose restoration challenges for the famed clear water of the mountain lake straddling the California-Nevada line.

Researchers name loud shrimp after Pink Floyd

OXFORD, England (AP) — A newly discovered species of shrimp that uses a bright pink claw to create a sound loud enough to kill small fish has been named for Pink Floyd.