Florida Frontiers TV – Episode 47 – The Shrimping Industry in Florida
Episode Date
12-16-2021
Episode Summary
The Shrimping Industry in Florida: Commercial shrimping and shrimp boat building thrived in Florida from about 1900 through the 1980s.
Keywords
Florida Frontiers Television; Shrimp boat building; Shrimping Industry; St. Augustine Shrimping Industry Monument; St. Augustine Shrimping; Key West Shrimping
Series Title
Florida Frontiers Television
Episode Title
Florida Frontiers TV – Episode 47 – The Shrimping Industry in Florida
Episode Number
47
Duration
26:47
Sponsors

Sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture.
http://dos.myflorida.com/cultural/
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This project is sponsored in part by The Jessie Ball duPont Fund.
Jessie Ball Dupont Fund website

This project is sponsored in part by The Historic Rossetter House Museum.
Rossetter House Musuem - Foundation and history
STARS Citation
Brotemarkle, Dr. Ben and Society, Florida Historical, "Florida Frontiers TV – Episode 47 – The Shrimping Industry in Florida" (2021). Florida Frontiers Television. 45.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/florida-frontiers-television/45
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Description
The Shrimping Industry in Florida
Shrimping Industry Boats
Brendan Burke - Maritime Historian, co-author_'Shrimp Boat City'
Ed Long, Shrimp Industry Worker, co-author_'Shrimp Boat City'
Grace Paaso, St.Augustine Shrimping Industry Monument Committee
John Versaggi, St.Augustine Shrimping Industry Monument Committee
Desco Marine - Shrimp Boat Builder
Mary Thompson, Laurilee Thompson and Sherry McCoy
Joshua McCoy, Dock Manager, Wild Ocean Market
Shrimping Industry Boats, Key West
Robert Kerstein, Key West on the Edge: Inventing the Conch Republic
Shrimping Industry Monument, St. Augustine
Dr. Ben Brotemarkle, Executive Director of the Florida Historical Society