cool video Joe! shrimping looks like a fun fishery. hope all is well man! sounds like you guys had a good crab season, should be another good one. I may try to weasel myself in if I find the right boat this winter and take a break from diving.
Looks like a nice boat but I would put a air actuator on the PTO so you don't have run down into the engine room every time you want to turn it on or off
Pretty clean shots, we load them into boxes with shaved ice here in Australia. It looks like some would be squashed standing on them, how do you unload them?
jonnywaselectric I did this for 20 years in Oregon. It’s best not to stand on them since some will get ground into mush. It’s somewhat unavoidable at times, especially when the boat gets a full load, which is often 100,000 lbs, but 30,000 to 50,000 is more common. They are unloaded by shoveling them into aluminum or steel boxes hung on a hinged “handle’ which are brought up and down by a crane, or “hoist” bolted to the dock. These are small “salad shrimp”. We call them Oregon Pink Shrimp, even though they are caught from Southern California up to the Canadian border. They are cooked, mechanically peeled, then flash frozen and boxed/bagged for market.
