Shrimp - Gulf Coast's Finest Louisiana White Shrimp

Unlike most shrimp vessels, the F/V Anna Marie has a freezer onboard—giving its customers something that is as close to straight out of the water as possible. The improvement in taste, compared to the typical dockside freezing, is unprecedented. The shrimp taste like they were never frozen. The flash freezing also preserves the kaleidoscopic colors of the shrimp leaving you with over-the-top quality and tremendously good-looking shrimp when they’re thawed. Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita, and the BP oil spill all took a devastating toll on family-run fisheries. The aftermath resulted in low-cost loans for local fishermen. Anna Marie Shrimp owner, Lance Nacio, used the opportunity to take a risk and invest in on-board freezers. The equipment, which freezes seafood almost instantly on large aluminum plates, had long been used in the big commercial fisheries in Alaska and Canada, but it had never been used in the shrimp industry. Other investments in the F/V Anna Marie included wider me