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If the idea of stepping off a dock and into a skillet full of just-caught shrimp makes your heart race, you are in the right place. The Gulf Coast hides a chain of towns where trawlers set the tempo, and fresh-catch living is a daily ritual.
You will find old-school working harbors, salty festivals, and kitchens that know exactly what to do with royal reds and brown shrimp. Let’s chart a route to the best shrimping towns where flavor meets tide and life moves with the nets.
Bayou La Batre, Alabama
Bayou La Batre wears its shrimping heritage on every piling, and you feel it the second you hear winches hum. Boats stacked with green nets idle along weathered docks while gulls mark the shift change…