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Shrimping crews are at sea for as long as two months at a time, she said, so members often don’t have homes on land.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2022

Shrimping is the largest piece of Florida’s seafood industry, with a value of almost $52 million in 2016, state statistics show.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2022

Turner also visited them, and painted some of his most famous pictures from observation there, namely "Stangate Creek," "Shrimping Sands," and "Off Sheerness."

From A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land by Hughes, William R. (William Richard)

Shrimping Net.—Pleasures and amusements, unconventionality, and good spirits.

From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Kent, Cicely