Alabama's seafood-processing shrimping port
Bayou La Batre is a small Gulf Coast city that calls itself Alabama's Seafood Capital. Its harbor is home to a large shrimping and oystering fleet and seafood plants.
Founded on a bayou named for an early French artillery battery, the town grew around fishing and shipbuilding. Waves of immigrants, including Southeast Asian families, joined its seafood industry.
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