COUNCIL BLUFFS — If everything you know about shrimp fishing comes from watching “Forrest Gump,” one thing is certain: You don't know much about shrimp fishing.
In order to appreciate how shrimpers who trawl the Gulf of Mexico haul in the 110 million pounds of “whites and browns” that land in U.S. supermarkets and restaurants each year, you have to go where the shrimp are.
That means a trip to the bayou. A team from Hy-Vee made the trek just before Christmas to get a gull's-eye look at the U.S. shrimp industry and visit the source of the wild-caught Gulf shrimp that will be featured in the company's seafood promotion in February.
Mitch Streit, store director at Hy-Vee's Mall of the Bluffs store in Council Bluffs, was among the Hy-Vee employees who made the excursion. He said the trip was designed to educate employees about the advantages of domestic seafood compared with the farm-raised and imported shrimp that has flooded the marketplace over the past decade.
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