{"id":10544,"date":"2019-07-19T17:25:06","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T17:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10544"},"modified":"2019-07-19T17:25:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T17:25:06","slug":"2019-20-shrimp-season-begins-in-gulf-of-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10544","title":{"rendered":"2019-20 Shrimp Season Begins in Gulf of Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10541\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10541\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10541\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/072.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/072.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/072-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/072-405x225.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10541\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Mark Waters sprays holy water on trawlers docked at the Brownsville Shrimp Basin. Photo: Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The 2019-20 shrimp season began Monday and industry representatives are expressing optimism even though a government forecast is predicting a below average season.<\/p>\n<p>Trawling for brown shrimp in waters of the Mexican Gulf is a livelihood for hundreds, if not thousands, of people and good catches translates into good revenues and income for those who work on the boats.<\/p>\n<p>But before the trawlers docked at the Brownsville Shrimp Basin take off, the fleet gets blessed to wish them good luck and to have a safe season.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Waters, a Canadian clergyman, who has been blessing the fleet for the last 14 years said 2019 is God\u2019s favorite year.<\/p>\n<p>After a long sermon, Waters, reporters, photographers, shrimpers hopped on a trawler on a nearly hour trip around the basin where crews could be seen busily preparing the boats for the new journey into gulf waters.<\/p>\n<p>As the trawler made its way around, Waters sprayed holy waters saying, \u201cGood luck and bountiful season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carlton Reyes, vice president of the Brownsville\/Port Isabel Shrimper Association, said the forecast calls for a below average season, adding that is just a prediction.<\/p>\n<p>Jorge Gonzalez, owner of several shrimp boats, said he doesn\u2019t follow the forecast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou never know until you start getting the reports,\u201d he said. \u201cGet back with me in December and I will tell you how the season went.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tony Vindell\/LFN The 2019-20 shrimp season began Monday and industry representatives are expressing optimism even though a government forecast is predicting a below average season. Trawling for brown shrimp in waters of the Mexican Gulf is a livelihood for hundreds, if not thousands, of people and good catches translates into good revenues and income [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10545,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10544\/revisions\/10545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}