In Alabama, a dredging project in Mobile Bay brings together unlikely allies

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Patrick Gormandy (center) and Christopher Hanson shovel shrimp into plastic baskets after a day of shrimping on Mobile Bay. He says putting dredging material back into Mobile Bay is detrimental to the fisheries habitat. They are lobbying Congress to ban the dumping of dredge material into Mobile Bay. (Blake Jones for NPR)But Corps officials say keeping the dredge material in Mobile Bay is good for the ecosystem. Byrne, who lives on Mobile Bay, has heard complaints from neighbors but says he hasn’t noticed a problem.