by Jamie Walker | photography by Allison Potter
Shrimping
the Cape Fear Coast
The timeless presence of trolling shrimpers is comforting:
the outriggers waving through early morning swells stretch
from the horizon to the beach, the subdued sound of sea
gulls swarm to share in the catch. T he men and women
aboard these boats, hauling in nets every couple of hours — out to sea
from half a day, to seven days in a row — reveal an undeniable love affair
with shrimping, an increasingly less viable profession.
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WBM october 2011
