Mr. Cui Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American shrimper living in East Biloxi, Mississippi. Nguyen was born in 1954, one of seven children, in the city of Rach Gia in the Kien Giang Province of South Vietnam. His father, Ngoc Van Nguyen, was a fisherman. His mother, Kau Thi Nguyen, farmed rice. They all worked together to fish and sell at the local market. In 1972 Mr. Nguyen served in his town in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnamese Army). In 1981 Mr. Nguyen escaped Vietnam by boat with his uncle and two sisters-in-law. After brief stays in Thailand and Indonesia, he arrived in Atlanta, Georgia, where he worked in a chicken factory. Later, he worked on a shrimp boat in Tampa, Florida, saving money to purchase his own boat. In Tampa, he met his wife, Hang Nguyen, and they moved to Biloxi, Mississippi. Together they have four children. 

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He discusses life in Vietnam circa Vietnam War, family of origin, learning to fish as a child in Vietnam, regulations, species caught, marketing catch, Biloxi, South Vietnamese Army service, fall of Saigon 1975, life under Communist rule in Vietnam, Communist reeducation camp, fleeing Communist Vietnam, immigration to America, shrimping in Florida and Mississippi, Hurricane Katrina 2005, BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, Vessels of Opportunity, oil in Mississippi Sound/Gulf of Mexico.