2009 Shrimping Season Opens Thursday

SCDNR announced yesterday that the 2009 South Carolina shrimping season will open this coming Thursday.  You can read the press release here.  Thus far, provisional (offshore) waters have been open, but nobody has been reporting much of a catch.  There should be plenty of shrimp inshore and still about a month’s worth of good white shrimp, so the season is on.  With the marine forecast, though, I’m not sure how many boats will be going out Thursday.  With this weather it will also be anybody’s guess where the shrimp will be.  I’ll have an opening day report up by Friday morning.