Haha! I prefer to keep all of my leftover bait from red fishing, and bring home with my filets and throats.
Yep, I think that CC was just being an azz that day!! He wanted to brag about buying Gulf shrimp twice a year. A half dozen of my friends in Matagorda, Sargent, and Freeport are shrimpers. Hell, I buy a $100 every day in Matagorda when the wife and I are there, and my guide friend buys $100 every day, all year long!!
As far as Gulf-caught, makes you wonder why the American Shrimp Processors Association (ASPA) is based in Biloxi, right next to the Biloxi Shrimp Co. and they harvest their shrimp right where the Mississippi dumps all the sewage and fertilizer from the entire country. Oh yeah, its right next to Pasgagoula and Bayou la Batre which are two of the biggest polluters of the Gulf.