Monday, December 17, 2007By RYAN DEZEMBER
Staff Reporter GULF SHORES -- Every October, more than a quarter million people descend upon this city's main public beach for the National Shrimp Festival in a four-day rite of fall nearly 40 years running.
Across Mobile Bay, in Bayou La Batre, the hard-luck headquarters of Alabama's seafood industry, a $1.2 million effort to promote locally caught shrimp has been under way since late 2003.
A sensible pairing perhaps. But while the two have flirted, attempts by some parties to marry the "Eat Alabama Wild Shrimp" campaign and the nationally renowned festival have failed.
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