Alarming fatality rate in Texas shrimping industry [Video]

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A recent study is highlighting the fatality rates in the shrimping industry, a occupation that drives an essential part of Coastal Bend dining.

Dr. Shannon Guillot-Wright, associate professor of occupational health at UTHealth Houston, said that she and her team of researchers have noticed an alarming trend in our gulf waters. 

“We talked to many shrimpers who had things fall on their heads, their friends’ heads,” she said. 

Guillot-Wright said being out on the water around various forms of equipment can play a role in an array of injuries. 

“There was one man who, a net had fallen and hit him on the head and he started having a seizure,” she said. 

Jeff Wright owns Anne’s Bait House On The Bay and said that he is no stranger to the dangers of shrimping when a fellow shrimper …