Still Reeling from Ian, Florida Shrimpers are Desperate to Get Back on the Water
Jimmy Driggers, 85, got into the fishing business when he was just 13 years old. He's a shrimper in Fort Myers, Fla.
"I was a mullet fisherman, [a] commercial fisherman in my younger days," he said.
Driggers walks with a prosthetic leg from an injury he sustained on his boat about a decade ago. It's decorated with a sea lighthouse.
He owns one shrimping boat — the Miz Shirley — named after his wife. It can carry 50,000 pounds of shrimp...
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