sentences:  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 the first permanent settlement on the south Mobile County mainland and was founded in 1786, when French-born Joseph Bouzage (Bosarge) [1733-1795] was awarded a Spanish land grant on the West Bank of the bayou (see history below).The modern City of Bayou La Batre was incorporated in 1955.