![]() ![]() Homes in the Bon Secour area are some of the oldest along the eastern Alabama Gulf Coast. ![]() In Bon Secour one can catch bass, bream, fresh-water catfish, then travel a few miles down river, to the bay and catch all manner of salt water fish, shrimp, and oysters in the same day. ![]() One can see baby bottle-nosed dolphins playing near the mouth of the river at any time. ![]() Brown Pelicans are everywhere and locals often see alligators from time to time, plying the waters of the estuarial system from the head waters of the Bon Secour River to the bay. Other than the relatively small, family owned, seafood processing plants, Bon Secour is primarily made up of many rural neighborhoods, most of which enjoy beautiful vistas of the Bon Secour River and Bon Secour Bay. The local commercial fisherman that make their living from the Gulf are no less salty but also friendly. īon Secour is characterized by a coastal, Southern Gothic scenery with huge water oak trees covered in Spanish moss, great blue herons, brown pelicans, ever present bottle-nosed dolphin pods and the potent smell of salty gulf waters everywhere. Still, the commercial shrimping industry in Bon Secour is hanging on by a very thin line. Marine science has indeed proven that wild-caught shrimp from local waters are in fact less likely to contain contaminates than the farm-raised shrimp that have been imported from other countries. As a result, the local shimpers, along with shrimpers out of the Mobile area have formed an alliance, increased their marketing, public relations knowledge and efforts to brand Alabama, Wild Caught Shrimp. Because wild shrimp caught by the local fleet must compete with farmed shrimp from overseas, economic pressures have driven many, multi-generational shimpers out of the business. One main point of pride within the community is the "Alabama Wild Shrimp Program". Large shrimp boats line the shores of the Bon Secour River, docked at processing plants for packaging and shipment to all of America. The primary catch for the Bon Secour fishing fleet ranges from Mobile Bay shrimp to deep water "Royal Red" shrimp. Bon Secour Fisheries is the oldest and biggest of them all, having been operating since the 1890s. Bon Secour Fisheries, Safe Harbor Seafood, Aquilla Seafood and Billy's Seafood all ship large quantities of Gulf of Mexico seafood to all areas of the United States. There are several major seafood industry businesses currently operating out of the Bon Secour estuary. He was a participant in the founding of Mobile in 1702. Named by Jacques Cook, a French Canadian from Montreal, a member of Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville's colonizing expedition of 1699. Currently it is a waterfront community that serves as a safe harbor to a commercial fishing fleet. It was originally a French fishing village settlement dating back to the late 19th century. By contrast, Mobile, Alabama is located near the (diagonally opposite) north end of Mobile Bay, much farther from the Gulf tide and hurricane storm surges.īon Secour has a rich history. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 Census.īon Secour is sometimes mentioned in hurricane report statistics, for the region, since Bon Secour is the easternmost town inside the coastline of Mobile Bay when entering the bay from the south, indicating weather and tide conditions for the population at the southeast end of Mobile Bay, nearest the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico. It is part of the Daphne-Fairhope-Foley metropolitan area. The estuarial river system empties into Bon Secour Bay at Mobile Bay. Elevation is 10 feet (3.0 m) above sea level. The name "Bon Secour" derives from the French phrase meaning "safe harbor" due to the secluded location on the inside coast of the Fort Morgan peninsula of southern Alabama. Bon Secour is over 35 miles (56 km) due east of the Alabama– Mississippi state line, near Gulf Shores, and over 45 miles (72 km) west of Pensacola, Florida. It lies along the eastern coastline of Bon Secour Bay (a contiguous bay that sits along the eastern edge of Mobile Bay). Bon Secour / b ɑː n s ə ˈ k j uː r/ is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States. ![]()
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