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Shrimp Industry Chronicle of the Gulf Coast
The article traces the rise of Gulf shrimp from dried shrimp to trawling and cannery canning starting in the 1920s, its boom after 1927 with Salvadore Casterino and the Rice brothers, and decline after the 1933 hurricane. It notes deeper water catching, refrigerated handling, cannery development in Port Isabel and Texas, price trends, and overfishing leading to depletion by the early 1940s.
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