Lowcountry, SC - There are some dirty jobs in the Lowcountry and ABC News 4's Josh Cascio is highlighting the five dirtiest jobs in the area.

First up, they're good to eat, but not to catch, local shrimpers have one of the toughest jobs in Charleston.

Captain Wayne Magwood allowed ABC News 4 behind the scenes of the Winds of Fortune shrimping boat to show us just how dirty and dangerous his job can be.

“We do get a lot of nasty stuff in the nets and sorting through the catch is kind of gross. More or less it’s a dangerous job because you have a lot of equipment moving around. Commercial fishing is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world,” Magwood explained.

The journey started at 5:30 in the morning departing from Shem Creek.  About a mile from Morris Island, the nets were casted.

After that it was time to troll. Captain Magwood dragged the nets for a few hours along the bottom hoping to trap thousands of shrimp inside and just after sunrise the daily catch is hoisted onboard.

"If you fall in there it'll cut you up like a knife, like a guillotine, cut your arm off, or leg off, we don't want to do that today, no we don’t," Magwood said.

With loaded nets, the crew begins sorting through the shrimp and everything else in the catch. Among the catch were fish and crabs that were thrown back in the water.  There was about 100 lbs of shrimp in the net, but that amount of shrimp is considered small by shrimping standards, and not worth the smell at the end of the day.

"Well I go home, smelling pretty bad everyday, I guess that counts right," Magwood added.

After sorting, shrimpers still have to clean the deck of all the  "trash fish." Piles get shoved overboard, a nasty task considering the hundreds of pounds of dead fish laying on the deck.

“After that we'll repeat the entire process,” Magwood said. "You can’t catch them everyday but you try anyways.”

It's that spirit that keeps these fishermen afloat, towing their lines day in and day out - a dirty job - one that remains a Low-country tradition.

Twelve hours worth of work netted about 400 lbs of shrimp, unfortunately shrimpers consider a good day around 1000 lbs.

Josh Cascio will go behind the scenes of the South Carolina Aquarium on Tuesday.