. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Travel and Tourism photograph. In this 1948 photograph, single-rig trawlers head toward Southport tages for the fishery. Demand for shrimp rose as it was one of the few meat products not on the ration lists. The technology for quick freezing was established and shrimpers began to "night" shrimp. Prices shrimpers were paid for their shrimp nearly tripled between 1940 and 1945, Maiolo and Bort report, and did triple between 1945 and 1950. Even then, fishermen were getting paid only 24 cents a pound
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Travel and Tourism photograph. In this 1948 photograph, single-rig trawlers head toward Southport tages for the fishery. Demand for shrimp rose as it was one of the few meat products not on the ration lists. The technology for quick freezing was established and shrimpers began to "night" shrimp. Prices shrimpers were paid for their shrimp nearly tripled between 1940 and 1945, Maiolo and Bort report, and did triple between 1945 and 1950. Even then, fishermen were getting paid only 24 cents a pound and prices would fall again before beginning the steady increase of the 1960s and 1970s. "The year of (Hurricane) lone, right after (Hurricane) Hazel washed my shrimp house away," Luther Lewis says, "I was getting fifteen cents a pound with the heads on and eighteen cents with the heads off. We headed 'em right on the bank. Sometimes we'd get fifteen hundred to eighteen hun- dred pounds for the night. That was several boats, then. That was mighty cheap when you were paid only eigh- teen cents a pound with the heads ; North Carolina's shrimp production reached a record high in 1953 with landings totaling more than 14 million pounds. That year, North Carolina's contribution to the South Atlantic regional catch (excluding the Gulf) was percent, the highest ever, ac- cording to Maiolo and Bort's findings. Biologists are unsure exactly why shrimp were so plentiful that year. During the 1950s a trend toward larger boats began and it continues to- day. Many trawlers were equipped with diesel engines, onboard refrigera- tion facilities, better net-hoisting gear and improved nets. Trawlers were capable of going farther offshore and making longer trips. In 1955, Maiolo and Bort report, 2,000 North Carolina residents were employed in the shrimp industry. Some 1,200 vessels of all sizes and types were being fished. Between 1945 and 1950, the number of otter t
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