Gulf shrimpers pray for good season

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Aug 9

Gulf shrimpers pray for good season

Rev. Gervis Burns blesses fishing boats docked in Bayou Delarge in Theriot, La., during the pre-shrimp season tradition known as the "Blessing of the Boats" on Sunday. Th season officially opens on Aug. 16. Docked boats were bedecked with fluttering red, white and blue streamers and rainbows of balloons in a bayou-country, pre-shrimp season tradition known as the “Blessing of the Boats.”

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