MT. PLEASANT, S.C. — Today is the first day of the summer shrimp season and shrimp numbers are back up in South Carolina coastal waters, according to the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources.
“Based on what our biologists are currently seeing in their trawl surveys, which they conduct monthly in Charleston Harbor and regularly in other estuaries across the coast, white shrimp numbers appear to have returned to the ten-year average in 2019,” said Erin Weeks with SCDNR.
She said that a majority of the white shrimp overwintering in Charleston waters were killed by 2018’s unusually cold winter.
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