Bayou La Batre

Bayou La Batre is a city in Mobile County, Alabama, United States. It is part of the Mobile metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,204, down from 2,558 at the 2010 census.

Bayou La Batre is a fishing village with a seafood-processing harbor for fishing boats and shrimp boats. The local chamber of commerce has described the city as the "Seafood Capitol of Alabama" for packaging seafood from hundreds of fishing boats.Bayou La Batre was founded in 1786, when French-born Joseph Bouzage was awarded a 1,259-acre Spanish land grant on the West Bank of the bayou. The modern city of Bayou La Batre was incorporated in 1955.