Shrimp season officially kicked off Wednesday, as regulators open the nearshore state waters where the most shrimp usually are found. But shrimpers might not move in too far from the three-mile state line where they have been casting nets.
“Oh, man, they’re beautiful,” Shem Creek shrimper Tommy Edwards said as his boat was pulling in more than 700 pounds Tuesday just beyond the line. “They’re big. They’re beautiful.”
That couldn’t sound better to Lowcountry crustacean lovers after a few years of poor overall catches. Sample trawls by the S.C. Department of Natural Resources before regulators opened the season suggested there were more juvenile shrimp in the water and the crop would be good. But size was a question until recent trawls.
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