ETV’s first HD production will air next month, Thursday the 19th at 9p.m.

“Carolina Caught” says there is still hope for South Carolina’s shrimping industry:

1. Jane Webb, of the Charleston-based S.C. Shrimpers Association Marketing Board’ has said the group’s efforts have managed to place tariffs against six different countries that import their pond-raised shrimp
2. SCDNR researchers at the Waddell Mariculture Center in Bluffton have developed new and improved ways to produce locally-grown pond shrimp here in the U.S.
3. Regarding wild-caught shrimp, Beaufort restaurateur Lantz Price predicts they might rise to the preferred status of a “boutique” product, sold only to finer restaurants, giving shrimpers a price per pound they can live with.

Let’s just hope these actions turn the South Carolina shrimping industry around – an industry that has it’s own problems to deal with, separate from the fishing industry.