At one time, Dulac once had 60 shrimp peeling machines on the bayou…

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shrimp peeling machines

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the shrimpers' wives?

Meth is a hell of a drug

Guess where this used to be at one time

i have never bought peeled shrimp...pretty much get them off the boat in dularge

i would also say that hurricane damage and the price to build back plus the cost of insurance had a lot to do with it also. There are many factors that played into this not just one.

More and more people are "moving up the bayou" every year.

Plus, a lot of the "cash" business is what hurts shrimpers. They claim they make money but when something happens and the Governet tries to help them with assistance they can't prove anything because most of the money is cash based untaxed.

My MawMaw and all my Uncles worked at a shrimp shed in Chauvin at one time or another. It was called Indian Ridge. My dad's first job was pulling baskets of peeled cooked shrimp from one side of the factory to the other so they could be canned. My MawMaw was a peeler. They had a van that would come around every morning and pick up the workers. I'm not sure how many factories still have shrimp peeling machines in Terrebonne Parish, or even Louisiana.

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My dad owned an oil change place in Houma in the 70s. One of the techs was a guy from Dulac. He was a Billiot. One day he came to work with his hand wrapped up. My dad asked him what was wrong. He had gotten a Dardar girl pregnant, and the Dardars cut off one of his fingers and used it to bait a crab trap.