Shrimp Weight

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Average Fisherman

Two questions. How many pounds would you estimate a 5 gallon bucket of headless 16-20 count shrimp would weigh?

Slightly more obscure.... How many pounds of headless shrimp would you estimate if you filled a standard gallon bag without over stuffing?

I'm trying to see if my wife was taken by a door to door shrimp salesman.

Before I read Saute86 post that said shrimp tails = about 60% .....

I was thinking a 5 gallon bucket holes about 25 lbs of live shrimp and estimated that it would take about 40 lbs of live shrimp, tails only to fill the 5 gallon bucket.

25# /.60 = 41.7 lbs. to fill the bucket.

Last year I helped catch a couple hundred pounds of shrimp. We headed and tailed them and put them in quart size bags. Doing that I figured each bag weighted about 2 pounds each and = about 5 lbs of whole shrimp.