The Collection of Shrimp!

There are a lot of pictures about shrimping, so I decided to break it into a few seperate posts, so that you don't have an extremely long post on shrimping.  This next set of pictures is located at another location-a friends shrimp farm. 

The Collection of Shrimp!

 How do they collect shrimp? Well I wondered that very question, and my host mom was nice enough to go show me how they do it.  This is the guy pulling the boat that is filled with netting.  What they do is create a big circle with the netting, and then slowly bring the netting in closer, until the shrimp are all contained. 

 The starting of the circle.  It's quite big, but they do collect a lot of shrimp.  I felt bad for the guys because thy were literally swimming with the shrimp. 

 Starting to bring the net in closer to shore where the shrimp will be put into baskets, to be transfered back to the sorting area. 

 Did you know that shrimp can jump? Well...I certainly didn't until I saw it with my own eyes.  A lot of shrimp attempting to escape the net by jumping over it.  The water is all in a turmoil because of the amount of shrimp attempting to get out of the net at once.  Some of the men got smacked in the face by shrimp, causing me to chuckle a few times. 

 Once they get the net into a small enough area, they stick baskets in the water, and pull out the shrimp.  They did this for a long time, just taking out basket after basket of shrimp.  I was actually amazed at the amount of shrimp that would come out of the net. 

 Sticking the water into the shrimp buckets.  I don't think I have a picture of this, so I thought I'd show you it. 

 A really bad picture of how big a unit is.  This one is empty, but normally its full.  It was supposed to be a panorama shot that would show the entire thing, but it didn't really.  There isn't actually that middle line in it, but I guess it shows how big it is.  And don't forget there are 60 of these in one farm...that's a lot of shrimp.  You can't tell in this picture, but the entire unit is covered by red string.  There is a pole in the middle of the unit and then there is red string that goes off of it creating a canopy type thing to keep the birds out. 

 We stayed there until the sun started to set (around 6:30 7:00ish.)  and I got to witness a beautiful sunset.  I took this picture because it showed the start of the sunset as well as the unit.  The little flowery things that you can see in the picture are used to mix up the water, putting oxygen in it so that the shrimp don't die. 

 A picture of the sunset over another unit.  Not much to say, but the colors of the sunset were pretty spectacular. 

This is me attempting to be creative, taking a picture of the sunset and the reflection of it in the water of one of the units. 

So that is another set of pictures about shrimping, this time showing a differnt aspect of it.  Hope you all liked it.