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Loose caulking, trash fish, flying planks: Oral history project collects and preserves fish stories
Alison Bishop, from Birch Harbor, who was born into a fishing family, went out lobster fishing with his father, became a stern man and started on his own after serving in World War II, remembers the days when people hauled freight across the ice in Frenchmen’s Bay. “In those days, lobstermen would have to fight
Leaner Fish, lower prices spell trouble for tuna fishermen
It is not only the pay that has dropped. Numbers of tuna caught, although slightly better than the last two years, have been down from preceding years. This prompted the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to rescind restrictions on days fishermen could go out in September, and to allow them to take two tuna per
Polyculture in the Bagaduce
Moran has made this trip in his 19-foot skiff hundreds of times during the four years he has cultivated seaweed and oysters in the plot near Negro Island, but since he tends the farm from mid-April through December, the weather has not always been benign. To be here on this day, it is easy to