anthony: how many pounds a day do you get? the shrimping has declined considerably since the 1980s, but the bay still provides a solid livelihood for people like vinh who made it out of vietnam on a tiny handmade boat. his engine died, and he and his family were lost in the south china sea for nine days before being rescued by a cargo ship. he became a united states citizen in 1990 and raised his family here in palacios. so what year did you come here? how long have you been doing this? vinh: i have been 1985. anthony: and what year did you arrive in this country? vinh: i left my country in 1979. anthony: how old were you when you got here? vinh: 21 years old. anthony: you were 21. so why shrimp? how did you come to this business? vinh: my cousin. anthony: cousin, okay. vinh: my cousins are living here. anthony: right. vinh: and i work on a job first, but they told me, they
of vietnam on a tiny handmade boat. his engine died, and he and his family were lost in the south china sea for nine days before being rescued by a cargo ship. he became a united states citizen in 1990 and raised his family here in palacios. so what year did you come here? how long have you been doing this? vinh: i have been 1985. anthony: and what year did you arrive in this country? vinh: i left my country in 1979. anthony: how old were you when you got here? vinh: 21 years old. anthony: you were 21. so why shrimp? how did you come to this business? vinh: my cousin. anthony: cousin, okay. vinh: my cousins are living here. anthony: right. vinh: and i work but they told me, they told me that, they ve very good for shrimping. good for shrimp, make money more.
1980s, but the bay still provides a solid livelihood for people like vinh who made it out of vietnam on a tiny handmade boat. his engine died, and he and his family were lost in the south china sea for nine days before being rescued by a cargo ship. he became a united states citizen in 1990 and raised his family here in palacios. so what year did you come here? how long have you been doing this? vinh: i have been 1985. anthony: and what year did you arrive in this country? vinh: i left my country in 1979. anthony: how old were you when you got here? vinh: 21 years old. anthony: you were 21. so why shrimp? how did you come to this business? vinh: my cousin. anthony: cousin, okay. vinh: my cousins are living here. anthony: right. vinh: and i work but they told me, they told me that, they ve very good for shrimping. good for shrimp, make money more.
so what year did you come here? how long have you been doing this? vinh: i have been 1985. anthony: and what year did you arrive in this country? vinh: i left my country in 1979. anthony: how old were you when you got here? vinh: 21 years old. anthony: you were 21. so why shrimp? how did you come to this business? vinh: my cousin. anthony: cousin, okay. vinh: my cousins are living here. anthony: right. vinh: and i work but they told me, they told me that, they ve very good for shrimping. good for shrimp, make money more. anthony: back on dry land, vinh s first stop is the point, the town s general store. it s owned and operated by pillars of the community, yen and bryan tran, who separately came over from vietnam around the same time, met, married and raised three children here. bryan: this is my dream. i came here with nothing.
shrimp. anthony: you don t want it. vinh: we don t want those. anthony: the shrimping has declined considerably since the 1980s, but the bay still provides a solid livelihood for people like vinh who made it out of vietnam on a tiny handmade boat. his engine died, and he and his family were lost in the south china sea for nine days before being rescued by a cargo ship. he became a united states citizen in 1990 and raised his family here in palacios. so what year did you come here? how long have you been doing this? vinh: i have been 1985. anthony: and what year did you arrive in this country? vinh: i left my country in 1979. anthony: how old were you when you got here? vinh: 21 years old. anthony: you were 21. so why shrimp? how did you come to this business? vinh: my cousin. anthony: cousin, okay. vinh: my cousins are living here. anthony: right. vinh: and i work but they told me, they told me that, they ve very good for shrimping. good for shrimp, make