Annual Blessing of the Fleet Marking Shrimp Season in Charleston
Add to Lightbox DownloadApril 30, 2017 - Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, U.S. - Decorated shrimp boats parade past the commercial fishing docks down Shem Creek during the annual Blessing of the Fleet signifying the start of the commercial shrimping season in South Carolina. Coastal shrimping is part of the low country heritage but has been declining rapidly with rising costs and increased foreign competition. (Credit Image: © Richard Ellis via ZUMA Wire)
- Filename
- RTI20170430_zaf_e02_012.jpg
- Copyright
- Represented by ZUMA Press, Inc. Zuma Press/RealTime Images
- Image Size
- 5568x3712 / 1.9MB
- www.zumapress.com
-
blessing fleet shrimpers shrimping shem creek pier docks commercial fishing arthur ravenel jr. bridge cooper river tourism travel sightseeing boats boat parade water trawlers decorated festival festive celebration seafood lowcountry low country annual event global warming ecology coast coastal charleston south carolina day outdoors outside horizontal zumapress.com thepicturesoftheday.com zselect zcontractphotographer blessing.fleet_59837.jpg zwire zlast24 zuma24 znocsm 20170430_zaf_e02_012.jpg 20170430_zaf_e02_012.jpg 20170430_zaf_e02_012.jpg
- Contained in galleries
- Daily Round Up 30 April 2017

