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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

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

From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Kent, Cicely

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)