The Gulf State Park Tradition...

[wabbott]

The 52nd Annual National Shrimp Festival is taking place in Gulf Shores this weekend. It was originally started to support the local shrimp fisherman and industry and has kept that purpose. We went to it and camped at GSP in 2022. I came across this article that the Festival uses DNA testing on the shrimp served at the festival to ensure they are local and not foreign imports.

https://www.gulfshoresnews.com/dna-testing-has-been-effective-at-national-shrimp-festival

The year we were there, testing was done and only ONE vendor used local shrimp. However the test used back then took DAYS to get the results back. This year the test being used returns results in a few hours.

The vendors sign a contract with the festival to use local shrimp only.

Good for them (the festival). BTW, this time of year the Gulf Coast has beautiful weather.

Bama Ed

PS - DNA testing shrimp sounds pretty high tech to me .....

Agree with your opinion on the Gulf Coast fall wx. We're headed to Destin/PC Beach in 10 days.