Cape Ann Images: Shrimp....Native Shrimp !

Why I created this......

Born and raised in Gloucester, Ma fishing gets in your blood. Surrounded by the sea, kids here have a boat almost as much as kids elsewhere have bicycles! As I grew older my fishing ambitions gave way to what's around me. Although I still "drop a line" every so often, my attention wanders to the majesty of the natural light that make this place so special. Never is each day the same. The subjects may be the same but the light from the sea & sky will morph the subject into a form of art. For that reason artists have been drawn to these shores for several hundred years, they followed the light painting and sketching these surroundings. What artists capture with paint on canvas, I attempt to capture with a click.....if I'm lucky!

I guess that's a sort of Fish'n!

Jay Albert

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Friday, February 11, 2011

Shrimp....Native Shrimp !

Not to far off the coast dragger fishermen have changed their groundfish gear to go shrimp'n. While some of the fleet go after groundfish some changed over to save their quota of other species to target the shrimp.

Gloucester Seafood Display Auction dock.

Snow covered Americold dock.

"Capt. Novello" steams by.

45' long 20' beam built in 2001 "Foxy Lady" pulls up to the dock.

Dusk

"Lady Jane" waits to unload.

45' long 19' beam built in 2009 "Underwing".

Hauling up shrimp.

More shrimp.

And more shrimp.

2 comments:

kate said...: OMG! where can I buy this shrimp?! I'm always looking for locally caught, not grown in a mangrove swamp in Thailand, shrimp!; 2:26 PM
Jay Albert said...: Most local Seafood stores carry Northern Shrimp. Intershell Seafood on Commercial St. has it and I'm sure Steve Connelly's on E. Main St. has it.; 3:15 PM