Category: Stories by Wilson J. Gaidry, III

There is a distinct difference in the perception of the rights of the citizens to participate in the harvest of marine fisheries […]

At the same time the Federal Government was developing a private fishery made up of super trawlers, the Louisiana Shrimp Fishery was […]

The Agencies and Institutions (A&I) needed the support of the shrimp processing factories and shrimp distribution companies and the shrimp fishermen to […]

The Federal Government, the processing plants and the lending institutions were encouraging more and more fishermen to build bigger and bigger boats, […]

Four Daughters It was in August of 1981, I was captain of the Four Daughters; we were trawling shrimp with the Four […]

In the late 1970’s I was making good, shrimping with the Captain Atlas in the summer and fall, fur trapping in the […]

In the 1960’s, 1970’s and increasingly so in the 1980’s, the agencies in the federal government associated with the Gulf shrimp fishery […]

The Captain Atlas One of the hardest working, ingenious men that I have ever known was Atlas Lovell. Atlas was a small […]

When I first went to Bayou du Large I was amazed to find the people speaking with an accent of Old England […]

During the summer months in the early 1950’s I trawled out of Fourpoint in Terrebonne Parish with the first boat I owned, […]