In this book the shrimper emerges as a flesh-and-blood human being trying to support a family in the face of overwhelming competing economic and political pressures which he may not fully grasp. Particularly noteworthy is extensive material on the ethnography of bay shrimping, on family ties and female shrimpers, on competing Vietnamese refugee fishermen, and on the influence of special interest groups in shaping state and federal environmental regulations on shrimping. The Bay Shrimpers of Texas is a model study in the sociology of occupations.”