This post comes to you from Shrimp Boat Projects We are just now emerging from the whirlwind of the 2012 bay shrimp season, a season that had us finally working as fulltime commercial shrimpers, selling our catch in new ways and learning hard lessons at an ever-quickening pace. Among these lessons is certainly 
This post comes to you from Shrimp Boat Projects Actually, there is no such thing as a typical day for us. Nothing is ever the same on the bay. But our second season of shrimping got going back in mid-April and we have settled into somewhat of a routine. 
This post comes to you from Shrimp Boat Projects The shrimp fleet at Hillman’s Seafood on Dickinson Bayou. One of the few remaining visual cues that shrimping was once a thriving industry on Galveston Bay. We just got back from Foodways Texas‘ annual symposium event, an The seventh issue of the CSPA Quarterly is now available! Cultures around the world rely deeply on both local creativity and agricultural activity. Creative culture and agriculture are inextricably linked, and both are facing challenges as we globalize. This issue contains stories from public projects, visual installations, film, and theater, and examines local vegetable farming, This post comes to you from Shrimp Boat Projects *in deference to the essay by M. Jimmie Killingsworth and the photographs by Geoff Winningham in the book Going Back to Galveston “THROUGH THE YEARS, THE MOSQUITO FLEET DOCKED HERE AMONG OTHER SHIPS. ENRICHING THE CITY AND NATION, AND This post comes to you from Shrimp Boat Projects These maps show the tracks of our first two weeks of shrimping on Galveston Bay aboard the F/V Discovery, at three different scales. The tracks are recorded by our onboard GPS chart plotter and then overlayed onto NOAA nautical charts This post comes to you from Shrimp Boat Projects Map reprinted from History of San Leon, Vol.1 by Alecya Gallaway (Left); Shrimp Boat Projects map of San Leon (Right) “Why would I want to live anywhere else?” – Dusty Hill, bassist for the band ZZ Top and former This post comes to you from Shrimp Boat Projects The process of putting the Discovery back in the water began with a traditional christening including the smashing of a bottle of champagne over the bow of the boat. We are happy to report that after nearly two months of work out of the This post comes to you from Shrimp Boat Projects Although historically a rite of passage for commercial fishing boats only, the annual Blessing of the Fleet on Clear Lake channel now includes both work boats and pleasure boats alike. “The Blessing of the Fleet is an annual event that is practiced in fishing |
  
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