South Carolina has strong shrimp season
Kitty Jordan didn't have high hopes for the shrimp season because she knew what the winter wrought.It was extra cold. It was especially mean. For 31 days, starting in mid-December, water temperatures were at or below 47 degrees, cold enough to kill the white shrimp. And it did.
She knew the harsh winter was the reason the commercial shrimp trawling season, which usually opens in late May or early June, was delayed until June 22. The opening date has not been this late since 2001, which was preceded by a similar chilly winter, said Brett Witt, a S.C. Department of Natural Resources spokesman based in Columbia.
Jordan, who works with her family at Stormy Seas Seafood Market in Georgetown, simply didn't have high hopes.
She is glad she was wrong.
"The season has really been good," Jordan said. "We were figuring it wasn't going to be anything because of the delay, but the brownies [brown shrimp] we have are really good. We sell most of them."
Despite Mother Nature disrupting the season, seafood markets are experiencing brisk sales from local brown shrimp being caught by shrimpers.
At Mr. Fish Seafood Market & Fish Market in Myrtle Beach, Holland Grayson, market manager, recently sold 20 pounds of local shrimp within two hours.
"People are coming in, and they want the local stuff," Grayson said. "They don't want the non-local stuff."
Read the complete story at thesunnews.com Study: Salmon served in some Puget Sound restaurants often mislabeled Just because the menu says the fish you’re eating is wild-caught king salmon doesn’t necessarily make it so, even here in the heart of salmon country, a new study from the University of Washington Tacoma shows. The study, conducted over three years by students in UWT biology classes using DNA detection methodology, shows salmon sold in Puget Sound-area restaurants is mislabeled surprisingly often. Salmon called wild-caught Pacific salmon on the menu was found, in multiple cases, to be less-expensive farm-raised Atlantic salmon. And even when the menu promise of serving wild-caught fish was fulfilled, the species wasn’t always the same as the restaurant advertised. What might be called king salmon, for instance, was in fact the more common coho salmon. More than 38 percent of restaurant samples tested by students in the UWT’s introductory biology classes were mislabeled, said Erica Cline, assistant professor in the university’s environmental program.
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The opening date has not been this late since 2001, which was preceded by a similar chilly winter, said Brett Witt, a SC Department of Natural Resources spokesman based in Columbia. Jordan, who works with her family at Stormy Seas Seafood Market in
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First off id like to say i am a fishermen i spend alot of time on the water so yesterday i decided to go fishing knowing it was july 4th weekend i seen dnr show up stopping boats so i put it on signal stalker and i didnt get nothing not even on the regular channels on the database page are they digital trunking now?? or are they on cb freq on there boats??? b/c i heard there radios on there boats but couldnt pick up there freq and on limit search on the pro164 i set up a search range from 150.000 to 158.975 and still didnt get anything i did mange to hear a few ems and fire stations could any one here who monitors SCDNR give me some insight what i could do maybe a tune search from 28.000 to 1300.000 this would take time and could miss stations leeme know hummm i have that program'd but seems greenwood has been active on 151.16000 but everynow and then it sounds trunked almost like SCHP on palmetto8 system when ctrl channel is not set propper or should i say the talk group but has a more midrange sound to it then pal8 like its trunked mayb ei should set the bank for trunking will it limit traffic i have pro-163 and pro-164 While SCDNR has talkgroups allocated for them to use on the Palmetto 800 system, they don't use them often if at all. They do make use of simpex (non-repeater) VHF frequencies in analog and P25 digital modes (note that a confirmed simplex VHF freq with confirmed NAC was added to the database just this week). But, as has been noted previously, quite a bit of their communication is probably handled via mobile phones or Nextel or similar services that cannot be monitored. I also know for the last few months the Aynor tower (151.430 dpl 503) has been in real trouble!!! The signal is terrible at best!!! I have trouble inside my house with my xts 2500 or xtx 5000 pukking there signal out. It use to be that with just a scanner it was clear as a bell at my home. The radio tech has been down numerous times to work on it but it has never gotten even close to what it was. This all began after testing on the Aynor tower with p25. i can still pick up georgetown (151.445 dpl 632) in my house clear as a bell. So with that all said i have no idea what is goin on with SCDNR but there seems to be possible changes comin down the road.
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