Shrimp Industry Making Comeback; Soaring Fuel Costs Major Concern
Mississippi Business Journal, The › August 19, 2009
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Shrimp Industry Making Comeback; Soaring Fuel Costs Major Concern
When Joe Ross, 93, started shrimping in Biloxi as a teenager, fuel cost 10c a gallon, and his engine burned 12 gallons per day.
"A dollar and twenty cents per day was all I had to have for fuel," said Ross, who was a commercial fisherman from his teen years until his middle 80s. I averaged 140 pounds of shrimp to a gallon of fuel back in 1937. Today, my son on some of his best days ...See the full content of this document
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