Shrimping Question

[Ray]

Freezers and IQF boxes are different animals.
There is salt boxes that hold high concentration of saltwater. When you shovel the catch into the salt box, most everything floats to the top except for shrimp and crabs, due to the high concentration of salt. Then you just dip net the fish and other things that float up to the top and throw overboard. The rest at the bottom is usually just shrimp. Makes culling a lot simpler and gets the shrimp on ice faster than hand culling.
IQF box is an insulated box with freezer plates towards the back and some kind of circulating mechanism to circulate the water. They add around 8 lbs. of salt per gallon of water, or something like that. The saltwater won't freeze, but it will form a slush at -20 deg. F.
After the shrimp are culled and bagged in onion sacks, they are dipped a couple times in the IQF box. The high salt keeps them from sticking together, it forms a layer between each shrimp. The sack is hung for a couple minutes to drip, then put in a freezer below decks.
I have worked on a few IQF boxes, each shrimper makes them different. I have seen some 500 gal. stainless steel tote tanks used inside walk in freezers so they won't have to insulate them, but the shrimper has to work in the freezer.

[Ray]

And ALL boats over 27 ft. has to have the discharge placards on the boat.
Some are all in one placard, some are in 3 different placards.
They deal with trash, oil and turd discharges.

[inchspinner]

my 2 cents, do your part and bring your trash home or dispose of it at the provided cans at the launch, thats all u can do.

[Ray]

My center console is full of trash after I get home.
All trash goes in there. None can fly out.

[Ray]

We have 2 trash compactors, one on deck 1 and one on deck 4.

We have 3 food grinders, one outside the main quarters galley and 2 spares, just in case. We cannot let the food go overboard unless it is ground up. So, broke grinder, we have to store it somewhere. We have between 150 and 160 POB. That would be bad to store all that food waste on board.

We have an electric corn grinder/macerator and an electric turn burner. It uses the macerator to make grits outta the turds and then passes thru the turd burner to kill any bacteria, then sends overboard.
When not working, we still have to macerate, but then pass thru chlorine bath to kill bacteria. When doing this, someone has to take cholorine residual test to make sure the right amount of chlorine is found in the overboard discharge to kill all bacteria. A record of the chlorine residual test has to be done every 12 hours and has to be sent in with the NPDES reports to the gov't every month. If no test is done when the turd burner goes out, again, we get INC'ed.

[Feesherman]

Originally Posted by Ray

We have 2 trash compactors, one on deck 1 and one on deck 4.

We have 3 food grinders, one outside the main quarters galley and 2 spares, just in case. We cannot let the food go overboard unless it is ground up. So, broke grinder, we have to store it somewhere. We have between 150 and 160 POB. That would be bad to store all that food waste on board.

We have an electric corn grinder/macerator and an electric turn burner. It uses the macerator to make grits outta the turds and then passes thru the turd burner to kill any bacteria, then sends overboard.
When not working, we still have to macerate, but then pass thru chlorine bath to kill bacteria. When doing this, someone has to take cholorine residual test to make sure the right amount of chlorine is found in the overboard discharge to kill all bacteria. A record of the chlorine residual test has to be done every 12 hours and has to be sent in with the NPDES reports to the gov't every month. If no test is done when the turd burner goes out, again, we get INC'ed.

Wow, things have sure changed since I been offshore. They would just chunk all da food over the side. This was in the mid to late 90's.

[booyagasha]

and everybody offshore is always on their p's and q's and nothing wrong ever happens and its a grand ole time.It's funny how you mention hundreds and thousands of dollars being spent on proper waste disposal yet ,they're not always used/ used properly. and if you really think it does, better crawl out that arse crack of yours

[Finfeatherfur]

Originally Posted by booyagasha

and everybody offshore is always on their p's and q's and nothing wrong ever happens and its a grand ole time.It's funny how you mention hundreds and thousands of dollars being spent on proper waste disposal yet ,they're not always used/ used properly. and if you really think it does, better crawl out that arse crack of yours

A wise old man once told me:
"It's better to sit there and look stupid, than open your mouth and confirm everyone's suspicions".

Have a good day sir, becasue you are not worth my time!:*****:

[booyagasha]

Originally Posted by Finfeatherfur

A wise old man once told me:
"It's better to sit there and look stupid, than open your mouth and confirm everyone's suspicions".

Have a good day sir, becasue you are not worth my time!:*****:

Young piece of leather, but damned well put together.I bite my tongue for no one..it doesnt even pay..this board is soo biased....I just wish for the day I'm blessed to actually meet some of you in person...:-)

PS tell my long lost homeboy Wayne Toups I said wassup.its been years since I've saw him

[southern151]

Originally Posted by booyagasha

and everybody offshore is always on their p's and q's and nothing wrong ever happens and its a grand ole time.It's funny how you mention hundreds and thousands of dollars being spent on proper waste disposal yet ,they're not always used/ used properly. and if you really think it does, better crawl out that arse crack of yours

Yeah, every construction hand I've EVER worked with was a shining example of society's elite crowd!

I applaud the efforts of the oil companies and I really believe they try to do right, most of the time but, they aren't able to monitor what every individual is doing 24/7. I think that's what you were getting at.

[booyagasha]

Apparently super sacks and sand bags are one in the same...

[downsouth]

You CAN NOT blame one certain group of people. It's a combination of everyone, Trawlers, crabbers, fishermen, offshore, beach people and who ever elese I left out. It is a dam shame this happens but when 100 different people do it everyday it does pile up big time. I'm from down here and I see it all the tim. Go take a walk on the bridge that everyone fishes from, the garbage can are filled to the top so they just pile it up all over. It get nasty some times. Last summer I met a lady going from TX to Fl along the coast taking picture and talking to locals, she was writing a book about the gulf coast. Her first question was why are the LA coast and roads so littered with trash. She said it's very noticable from TX, AL, MS, and Fl. I'm guessing either no one care about LA or the law aint strick enough, who knows but the way it sounded people like throwing garbage out in LA the most..

[Ray]

I'm gonna crawl out my arse and say you are way off on this one.
I think it all depends on the company and the platform, platform management and training.
Most big oil companies spend a lot of time and money on reputation management. Pollution is the last thing they want to have to deal with.
Where I work, if you drop anything overboard accidently, you have to report it and it goes into the deck log. If the weather is good, it will be retrieved, if it floats.
If you throw something overboard on purpose, you won't be doing it again.

[southern151]

Consider some of what I've seen. In the area I live in, people think that behind the MS River levee is a dump! Anything from tv's, furniture, old garage doors, and one crew barge that I have personally witnessed offloading their trash onto land and burning it! Yes, I've called em in to the levee board, WLF and state police but nothing is ever done.

All of this washes out into the GOM. If I were a betting man, I'd put money on the idea that "my" area isn't the only one guilty of actions like these. Litter hits the GOM from as far north as Minnesota or and as far south as in the GOM itself.

Even my dad has passed comment as to how trashy some of the people are here! It's sad to see such beautiful land get treated with such little respect!