Three Cee's
by D Hackett
Title
Three Cee's
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D Hackett
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Photograph - Digital
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Three Cee's by D Hackett
The most important invention in shrimping history happened in 1913 on Amelia Island when a fisherman named Billy Corkum came down from Gloucester, Massachusetts on the hunt for blue fish. By a stroke of good luck, Billy ended up visiting some friends on Amelia Island during his journey, and it was here that he watched the process of shrimping for the very first time. Before Mr. Corkum, shrimpers had been using saine nets hung between two boats to catch shrimp. Billy devised a better way. He invented the otter trawl net, the net used by all shrimp boats (and our boat) today. Since the day Billy came to town the shrimping industry has never been the same. People up and down the eastern coast (who had never tried shrimp before) got a taste of the sweet Fernandina shrimp and wanted more! Today, shrimp is the number one seafood consumed in the United States and for a long time Amelia Island remained the capital of this industry. Unfortunately, shrimping has declined on Amelia Island, yet the demand for shrimp keeps growing, and the nets and shrimping processes keep evolving.
Here in Fernandina Beach, Florida, the birth place of the modern shrimping industry, many folks are shrimp savvy. Some are rooted to the shrimping industry, while others understand the difference of buying “wild-caught domestic shrimp” versus farmed, Asian imports.
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