FLORIDA SEAFARE

Year Published: 1960s

Format: 16mm

Description: Made in the late 1960s or early 1970s, FLORIDA SEAFARE shows Florida's fishing industry on the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts. It includes coverage of commercial fishing boats, oystermen, crabbing, shrimping and seine net fishing for mullet. It also shows the 6th Annual Apalachicola Seafood Festival in 1969. The Florida Seafood Festival is a two day event annually drawing tens of thousands of visitors to the historic town of Apalachicola in scenic Franklin County. The Festival is held at the mouth of the Apalachicola river under the shady oaks of Apalachicola’s Battery Park. The festival features delicious seafood, arts and crafts exhibits, seafood related events, Musical Entertainment. Some of the notable events include Oyster Eating and Oyster Shucking contest, Blue Crab Races, Photo Contest, Parade, 5k Redfish Run, The Blessing of the Fleet, History of the Festival Exhibit and Tonging For Treasure. This film was produced by Barton Films for the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Florida Department of Natural Resources and National Marine Fisheries.

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[Music] for [Music] [Applause] [Music] world That's mighty deep water they won't come up [Applause] flopping you're doing a good job [Music] oh that's some f on that that would make pop we got gr and S Bo down there this [Music] time we walked around minnesot 3 days across Tennessee coming to the Flor Aline and treasures from the [Music] sea come with me gentle breeze is blowing Florida may I take your hand Neptune lay your Trident down father in the sea we have have come to sing your song a festival in the sea you and me playing in the water you and me running in the sand Pisces is a friend of mine sacred fish is my birth sign you and me playing in the shallows me laughing in the [Music] sun now you might call it a fair sea fair some call it a festival Florida folks call it a fish fry but let's just call it good times good times that's singing and dancing and seafood lots of seafood young and old alike y'all come y'all [Music] [Music] come [Music] B [Music] another [Music] [Music] I need another [Music] we Tong for oysters there are newer ways to harvest them but tonging does strengthen the biceps and the back and and then the character that they tell me helps you sleep well [Applause] too [Applause] [Music] now young oysters attach themselves to Old shells so sometimes you got to whack them to sort them there's only one thing better for you than farming oysters and that's eating them keeps you young this man down here [Music] [Applause] go [Music] here small boats are okay for scallops close in but offshore you got to use big gear dredges not tongs are used for scallops maybe because scallops move around mature oysters can't by sure gallops move pretty fast just by snapping their shells sort of you might call them jet propelled Calico scallops are small sweet tender they're delicious we ship them all over the country that is the ones we don't eat down [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] here all right children why don't we sing the fish fry song [Music] water we [Music] the war by the star [Applause] [Music] prizes in each heat winner of each Crab race of four will hold on to his crab and will enter them in a contest for the fastest CRA alive [Music] there are plenty of crabs in Florida waters we use traps to catch them and the little ones we throw back that's the law to make a you got a haul and set about uh about 200 traps a [Music] day every once in a while a ppus will come alongside to sort of check on how we're doing almost all the stone crabs in the states are landed in Florida all the stone crab Meats in the claws so sometimes we tear off one claw and throw the crab back to to grow to to to regenerate a new one females carrying egg there they're also thrown back helps conserve the species you know what I [Music] [Music] mean we take Blue Crabs in Florida too they have meat in their bodies as well as in their [Music] claws now our lobsters don't have any claws at all we take lobsters and traps and Market them as Florida lobsters actually they're not lobsters they're crawfish you get them when you order lobster [Music] tails [Music] conservation officers are checking the catch 4 6 8 10 12 and 15 79 at 4 at 5 at [Music] 8 now here's a real delicacy Pompano pompo landed mainly in Florida you know what we call them goldfish then there's mullet more and more people are beginning to discover how good they [Music] are they're turning back toward you over okay we'll make a set [Music] [Music] [Music] you know it takes a long beat s to Circle a school of fast moving mullet they can swim under the SA or jump over it if you're not [Music] careful [Music] we catch macro back same way we catch mullet [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] Keeps Us [Music] honest we can't start our engines over I have your check your gas gauge over I have but the gauge register's full over stand we're on our way we'll try to get you started if that doesn't work we'll tellw you in you got no problem with it okay here's your part fish fry Florida Fish Fry Fish Fry Florida Fish Fry and we'll sing the other part and we'll do it together all right [Music] [Applause] okay one more time a whole lot [Music] of by y one morea one more so glad you came today but now I've got to be going here comes punch I have to be careful because always punches me in the the lead the blessing of the fle will be at [Applause] [Music] 35 people of all fa thank God for his Bounty from the sea and they ask Divine protection for all [Music] fishermen about everybody likes shrimp we use an otter TRW to get them it's a large bag of net and it's held open by otter doors we just drag the troll over the bottom and scoop the shrimp into the open that and we've got a new way to grow shrimp aquaculture it's called breeding and raising shrimp under controlled conditions in shrimp Farms a jar can hold thousands of shrimp larvey and they have a better chance to grow to eaten size here at the shrimp farm where there are no Predators other creatures to feed on them I [Music] mean y y y [Music] [Laughter] [Music] y [Music] [Music] y [Music] all kinds of new things happening here in Florida to increase our seafood supply we use movie and television cameras on a sled it's like having divers down there at the bottom helps find new places to go fishing fishing for Calico scallops for instance [Music] [Music] you can see that we got ourselves quite a seafood industry yeah we ship them fresh frozen smoked and breaded every day teia Cook Denver Phoenix and Sue City iway now they're ready at your Market ready for your table easy to prepare now they're caught in Florida yesterday buy them anywhere today and Florida trains home economists to let people know about Seafood how to fix it don't overcook how good it is for you low in that cholesterol great for [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] dieters [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] two [Music] la [Music] [Music] yeah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] in Florida we know that to enjoy our Seafood we must keep our environment the way it is even improve it and believe me we aim to do just that Ding down through Florida what can you see something Weighing on my mind the word ecology sunshine flowers and sweet breezes on my [Music] mind let us plan together through the hour our glass we see visions of our children's time gentle Harmony sunshine sweet Brees that blow from the [Music] sea


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