We have our problems but I love where I live!

[Beer-lord]

Fresh Lake Pontchartrain shrimp only hours old.....$2.50 lb. A steal.
I had no choice but to de-head them all and freeze them for use later. Don't have time during the week to do a full boil but the season's only begun.
Hmmm, what pears well with shrimp? BEER!

[swenocha]

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[Dawg LB Steve]

Fresh water shrimp salt water or brackish?

[Beer-lord]

Wiki can explain it better than I can so sorry for the nerdness.....basicallly, it's brackish.

Lake Pontchartrain is not a true lake but an estuary connected to the Gulf of Mexico via the Rigolets strait (known locally as "the Rigolets") and Chef Menteur Pass into Lake Borgne, another large lagoon, and therefore experiences small tidal changes. It receives fresh water from the Tangipahoa, Tchefuncte, Tickfaw, Amite, and Bogue Falaya rivers, and from Bayou Lacombe and Bayou Chinchuba. It is one of the largest wetlands along the Gulf Coast of North America.[2] It comprises more than 125,000 ha of wetland, including bottom land hardwoods and cypress swamps (although these have been severely degraded by past logging) along with a complex mixture of herbaceous wetlands including fresh, intermediate and brackish marsh.[3]

Salinity varies from negligible at the northern cusp west of Mandeville up to nearly half the salinity of seawater at its eastern bulge near Interstate 10. Lake Maurepas, a true freshwater lake, connects with Lake Pontchartrain on the west via Pass Manchac. The Industrial Canal connects the Mississippi River with the lake at New Orleans. Bonnet Carré Spillway diverts water from the Mississippi into the lake during times of river flooding.

[braukasper]

Know what you mean. I love it when the salmon first start running. Nice bright silver fresh on the grill later in the run great for the smoker

[John Sand]

I knew Pochartrain was navigable, I didn't know they shrimped there.
We have similar situations here. "Montauk Lake" is a saltwater harbor. I'm not sure if it always was, or was made a harbor by dredging an inlet. There are other "lakes" and "ponds" on the Atlantic Coast that are saltwater.

[Beer-lord]

Since the Lake Pontchartrain Foundation cleaned up the lake a few decades ago, it's much cleaner and much better for fishing and shrimping. Lots of different fish there. The closer you get to the Gulf outlets, the better.