Commercial Shrimping Off The Oregon Coast. Where does our salad shrimp come from? - Sid Smith

well I'm gonna go on an adventure for the next few days um just one of my clients and now became friends he owns a commercial shrimp fishing vessel and I am going to go shrimping for the next to three days however long that takes until they get their quota here's part of the boat and they call this a vessel not a boat that's what I've learned I have no idea what the length is and right now they are loading in the ice they loaded about nine tons of ice down into the bottom of the hull and what that does is that obviously when they put the shrimp on there they want the shrimp to stay cold and Frozen until they're able to bring it back into the Cannery [Music] foreign all right we're inside the vessel and this is going to be my bunk that could be very entertaining it's fascinating these birds they swim on the water and they literally dive underneath and swim underneath trying to figure out what they're catching but they're following the boat here and they've been doing this the whole time foreign guys are running around and 17 Mile offshore it's here kind of see in the background here and they're actually pulling them up out of the water so super fascinating what they do this is the whole process and they're pulling in the Nets to kind of as they've been driving along they have the Nets behind the boat shrimp are getting caught on the Nets they for however long it takes and as they pull in the Nets then they'll put the shrimp in this topper here it works so they just kind of keep doing this until they get their photo well said now it's where we see what's [ __ ] Ed out of there look I don't know but it's grabbing the one you had a hold of you swear to head foreign last minute I guess that's not long enough yeah we can't go down anymore can we go yeah we can't wait out any more wine either we're at the end of the winch and then take the strap and hook it back in the hook well that's nice to be back still all right so this is like our third load and this load is so big that now they're trying to figure out how to haul it in so we don't break the equipment so heavy that it really straightens all the equipment just a gigantic load so that's what they're trying to figure out now welcome to the adventure they said they're double blocking what is that power foreign [Music] [Music] thank you pretty close to even that's a good thing too foreign [Music] [Music] this is big hanging out the stairs this is just one bag right got another one over there They're Gonna Fill the hopper and then well today's Monday played Saturday night so this is our second and a half day third on our third day and uh you can barely see the shoreline behind me there but we're about 10 miles out the coast here in Oregon and it's quite an adventure to see how hard these guys worked and what it actually takes to catch shrimp and also how much they catch I mean these guys been doing it for 30 plus years they they're really good strippers they really know what they're doing we'll be going into new Oregon today dropped off and I'll be getting off the boat there but but it's been a wild ride learning and seeing and watching and seeing the whole process of how they do this and it's a very very interesting career path of what guys can do to earn a living very very hard work it's it's quite an adventure that's for sure [Music] well said that was a crappy one all we got was a bunch of little teeny bits [Music] [Music] [Music] there it goes good right there that's perfect yeah this wrapped around perfect works um I'm gonna say this in the 30s probably 138 or so we can count 17. that's that's bigger bigger look there's more four-year-olds in it more four-year-olds in it than there was I think that's a better count than when we were catching them before yeah that's uh a good grade just we got to make more of it that's a good sign towards the end of the season you grind on this no problem at all I just know there's better out here right now it's still 54 000 pounds anyway probably 3 500 pounds foreign but it's a good sign for the second toe of the trip that's a good sign towards the end of the season you grind on this no problem at all I just know there's better out here right now [Music] it's still three four thousand pounds anyway it's probably been 3 500 pounds it's fascinating these birds they swim on the water and I literally dive underneath and swim underneath the Pharaoh what they're catching more like it that's what we're supposed to do already fun last nicely back still what what slipping yeah [Music] I know I gotta let it go we gotta rewrap it it's okay because I can take this one out of the cat and we can hold it in place for the I'm holding your bag up Tony hey coming down so now what happened do you mind describing what happened I broke the pin in that block okay the main the main block that was holding pulling up the shrimp yeah did it split because it was so heavy yeah that's [ __ ] dead [ __ ] right there that's a big bang There boys here we go coming in that freaking big lines that'll be in my ways uh foreign foreign [Music] Hopper we'll know if it's if it's snow cone if it's over the top then we got six thousand pound bag [Music] twelve thousand in two hours six thousand pounds an hour there we go [Music] hey all right full Hopper monster shrimp tell big ones so the other shrimp boats you may have to take it to Bobby's side since we're investing this way foreign

Channel: Sid Smith

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Length: 22min 9sec (1329 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 22 2023