Opening of 2021 shrimp season could be delayed, says CMR
Opening of 2021 shrimp season could be delayed, says CMR By Bill Snyder | May 18, 2021 at 1:50 PM CDT - Updated May 18 at 6:14 PM
BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - It looks like coast shrimpers will have to be a little more patient before they can drop their nets in the Mississippi Sound this summer.
Rainy weather during the last two months has caused salinity levels and lower water temperatures in our local waters, meaning it could push the start of the 2021 shrimp season back a few weeks.
Normally, shrimp season begins during the first or second week of June.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) Markers are missing from four artificial reefs that were created a year ago, and shrimpers need to know where they are to avoid snagging their nets on them, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says. A combination of weather, moving water and time probably pulled buoys away from the 10-acre reefs made in April 2020 from limestone, reefballs and oyster shells, department spokesman Rene LeBreton said in an.
Love of nature – and seafood - leads MSU Alum to Gulfport and Biloxi
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The Windy City’s breezes blew Chicago’s Hadiya White across Lake Michigan east to Lansing where she attended MSU and found her future. She ditched skylines for seascapes after graduating in 1999.
“I earned a Bachelor of Science degree in wildlife management in the Fisheries and Wildlife program,” said White while we walked through her current workplace at the creative, expansive new Mississippi Aquarium in Gulfport. “The aquarium is across the street from the beach so we talk about the ecosystems with visitors and then they get to go out and explore them.”
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