Battered shrimp industry takes great success because of Hurricane Katrina
BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. - The immediate and devastating impact of Hurricane Katrina in a sector already in serious difficulty is on hand in this small fishing town south of Mobile Alabama.
Dozens of shrimp trawlers, their cranes and netting splaying their sites as wings, were thrown ashore or algae.
You define clumped alone or in bad positions.
In addition Shell Belt Road, treatment facilities shrimp on the Bayou are dismantled and schmierte terrible smell of mud mucus, customs thick.
The water was, but throughout the region feel that sewage, diesel fuel and disintegration.
Peeling machines, only weeks bourdonné as they treated as 70000 pounds of shrimp a day are silent now, sitting in the dark, thanks to buildings filled with displaced swamp snakes.
Workers have desktops for drying in the sun, while Hurling filthy furniture, mats and destroyed cabinets Dumpsters.
“This disaster is a death blow to the industry - and that is all I have to tell you,” said Walton Kraver, 69, the president of Jubilee Foods, one of the largest shrimp processing and storage companies in this part of the coast.
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