Our Story

Ray Brandhurst has only wanted to be a shrimper his whole life. He grew up in Orleans Parish and spent his childhood around the Rigolets (French for gutter or trench) on shrimp docks. Perhaps it's in his blood. Shrimping stretches back over seven generations in his family. In the 1700s, his ancestors were fishermen in the Basque region of Spain.

For over twenty years, his wife and business partner Kay has been stars in the seafood industry of Louisiana. Each market day, she meets Ray at the dock where he unloads fresh and IQF (Individual Quick Frozen) shrimp and bycatch (the calamari and finfish that also get scooped up by the trauling nets). With ice chests loaded onto their delivery truck, Kay heads to the farmers market with products to dazzle the food-obsessed shoppers.

Prior to Katrina, the Brandhursts lived just down-river from New Orleans in Chalmette with the family of four kids, near where Ray docked his 50-foot trawler named "Four Winds." The boat was named "Four Winds" after their four children, built by Ray's own hands. After the storm did its damage, taking with it their house, processing facility and shop, the boat sat in eight feet of water for weeks at the bottom of Bayou Bienvenue. It was retrieved from the water by a crane. Between trawling on smaller boats and in cooperation with fishermen who used to be his competition, Ray has restored his boat, and the "Four Winds" is once again leading the shrimping brigade!

Today, the Brandhursts are continuing their business in Chalmette, LA. The family is charging forward into a new live with a renewed spirit and positive outlook for opportunity.

Four Winds Seafood is available to deliver the freshest Wild Louisiana Shrimp to your kitchen by dinnertime, everyday, nationwide. Contact Four Winds Seafood today to experience a flavor like no other. Wild Louisiana Shrimp.