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The Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Team agreed on gear modifications to help protect whales.

Lobstermen navigate more than fishing grounds to stay on the water

June 25, 2019

Seasonal gear bans to protect North Atlantic Right Whales in Cape Cod Bay and surrounding waters usually end May 1, but this year lobstermen in the Bay were off the water until May 10 because the highly endangered mammal was still seen in Cape Cod Bay. More than a month later, June 16, several lobstermen were off the water again, but this time not by state edict...

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Staff photo by Doreen Leggett

Growing shellfish and their champions

June 25, 2019

Nancy Goward stood in a room dwarfed by clear tanks filled with water of varying earth-tone colors at A.R.C. Hatchery. “This whole entire room is just food,” said Goward, an algae supervisor at the shellfish facility. About half a dozen children, clipboards pressed against their chests, watched as she lifted a heavy tire up off the concrete floor...

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“Models of Maritime Courage and Adventure: The People and Vessels that Built Our Community” runs through Sept. 22. Photo courtesy of Orleans Historical Society

Models and role models: The long history of taking to the water

June 25, 2019

“Models of Maritime Courage and Adventure: The People and Vessels that Built Our Community” is open Thursday, Fridays and Sundays, 1-4pm, until September 22, 2019 at the Orleans Historical Society’s Meetinghouse Museum, 3 River Road, Orleans. For more information please visit: https://www.orleanshistoricalsociety.org/

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First Light Boatworks has recently welcomed miniature tenants from A.R.C. Hatchery. Christine Walsh Sanders Photography

PHOTO GALLERY: Summer arrives sooner at First Light

June 25, 2019

If you ask Paul Wittenstein what he likes about shellfish, he will talk about colors. You may find Wittenstein’s response puzzling. Don’t they all look the same? No, color variation is expansive, says the hatchery manager at A.R.C. Hatchery in Dennis. And A.R.C. adds to it by breeding shellfish with tones and lines to make them stand out. Appreciating that beauty puts Wittenstein in his element at A...

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Photo Courtesy of Christopher Seufert

We need to get there from here

June 25, 2019

Of all things on this big old planet that could be divided and put into boxes, the ocean is the least likely. Yet people find ways to box off and subdivide even the waves, and once you push past holistic and romantic objections, there are reasons for it: We are at a point in our relationship to the world where (like it or not) we need management, we need to understand our impacts and where to focus and avoid...

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Zach Buckley, Ben Bergquist and Adrian Frost unload the day's catch from Kurt Martin's weirs.

Small Boats, Big Ideas. May 2019

June 11, 2019

Read our latest issue from May 2019!

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Kurt Martin and his crew plying the ancient art of trap fishing. Staff photo by Doreen Leggett

Kurt Martin is one of the last weir fishermen on Cape Cod

May 29, 2019

The clock hit 11 a.m. when Captain Scott Rorro got aboard his boat Sea Hunter for another long trip, 20 hours maybe, harvesting sea scallops. The Hyannis waterfront was quiet on the sunny spring day, a few people walking by. Some stopped to watch the crew of a small, sturdy, grey trapfishing boat named Nancy S. as they hoisted their morning’s catch up and over the pier into a waiting truck a few boat-lengths down...

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Participants at one of GMRI's C-Rise presentations explore an interactive coastal map. Photo courtesy of Gayle Bowness

Fishermen have front row seats for rising seas

May 29, 2019

Anyone who has worked on Cape Cod’s waterfronts will have plenty of anecdotes about the creeping level of the sea. Fishermen tell tales about storms that caused water to surge up and over piers and parking lots, swamping skiffs and making a mess of dock lines and gear. Scientists have compiled decades of data on increasing sea levels. Many communities in our region are working to build awareness and develop responsive solutions to what the impact of more inches of ocean -- eventually more feet -- will mean...

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California Congressman Jared Huffman, Cape Cod fisherman Stephanie Sykes, and NOAA’s Drew Lawler at an FCC event in Washington. Staff photo by Seth Rolbein.

Spreading the fisheries gospel in D.C., with partners coast to coast

May 29, 2019

On the last evening of April, Congressman Jared Huffman from California’s northern coast was mingling with fishermen from Alaska, California, the Gulf of Mexico, Maine, and Cape Cod at a fish, beer, and wine bash just a few blocks off Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. He was a good guy to see there; chair of the House Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife, he has a lot of say and sway about federal fish issues...

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Gov. John Volpe asked for the report that was the impetus for the current  Massachusetts Marine Fisheries Advisory Commission. Wikipedia photo.

Old fisheries report rings true today

May 29, 2019

*One inshore fishing ground produces approximately 300 pounds per acre per year of bay scallops alone, twice as much as the 150 pounds per acre per year estimated for beef cattle on a ranch. *As little as 10 percent of lobsters harvested in Massachusetts waters are bought in the state, most are imported from Maine and Canada. Those statements are from a 1961 state report and do not stand the test of the time; bay scallops have crashed while the Commonwealth’s lobster industry has grown...

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Blending science and experience

May 29, 2019

Is it a no-brainer to say that good science is the key to creating good fisheries management? Sure it is, but when you apply that truth to fishing realities -- uncertainty at sea, competing interests boat to boat and port to port, political headwinds that can shove the process off course – the maxim becomes less clear. Turns out it takes a lot of brains from a lot of people, with a big dash of political skill, to apply the no-brainer...

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The plucky Nancy S. trap boat is ready and waiting in Hyannis Harbor. Doreen Leggett photo.

PHOTO GALLERY: The art of trap fishing

May 28, 2019

An old trap fishermen said pulling up to a trap is akin to waking up on Christmas morning as a kid: You didn’t know what was going to be there, but you knew it was going to be good. Nowadays, weir fishermen, such as Captain Kurt Martin, feel a similar sense of anticipation, but without the assurance that there will be anything in the nets at all...

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