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Festival is forgotten

Shrimp fleet's slender profit margin is pulverized by storm

By Thomas Farragher
Globe Staff / September 6, 2005

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MORGAN CITY, La. -- It was to have been a festive holiday of boiling shrimp, cold draft beer, and a fishing fleet festooned with colorful bunting, but here in a city that calls itself the jumbo shrimp capital of the world, there was instead dread and desperation along the muddy waterfront. (Full article: 912 words)

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