Tag: Delacroix
Nicky Alfonso, 47, has been dragging and pushing shrimp nets in the marshes around Delacroix Island, both as a deckhand and later as a captain, since he was too little too see over the steering wheel.
No sooner had Clint Guidry and other Louisiana fishermen dug out from Hurricane Katrina and the oil spill than Hurricane Isaac tore into the southeastern coast, producing more destruction and one more round of cleanup.
On a nighttime bayou expedition with shrimper Nicky Alfonso, a writer learns why some in the industry are calling this brown-shrimp season in Louisiana “weak, lean and poor.” In a line of work where margins are slim, sometimes the numbers don’t add up.
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