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Big Shrimpin' (2011)

Big Shrimpin' poster
Genre
reality television
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 8 episodes
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Three veteran shrimpers from Alabama work for a seafood company owner. They compete against each other and other crews while enduring tough conditions during months of shrimping along the Gulf Coast.

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What happens

Big Shrimpin' is an American reality television series that premiered on November 17, 2011 on the History channel. The series follows three longtime shrimpers from Bayou La Batre, Alabama who are employed for Dominick Ficarino, who owns Dominick's Seafood. They battle each other, other companies, and harsh conditions as they shrimp for several months nonstop in the waters of Texas, Alabama, and Louisiana. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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