A father and son team work together to improve lobster fishery
When Sean Leach graduated from Suffolk University with a degree in accounting he had a few job offers right away. But since he had been lobstering from the age of eight or so, and his dad needed some help running the boat, he said he’d do a summer. Come fall, the firm he hoped to work for called and offered him the job he wanted --- but the answer changed...
Press release - New legislation would engage fishermen to protect right whales
June 8, 2018 Press Release New legislation would engage fishermen to protect right whales FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information contact:Community Journalist Doreen Leggett 508-945-2432 ext. 111 CHATHAM -- The name of a new piece of federal legislation is an echo of a successful movement in the 1980s, although far more specific: SAVE the Right Whales...
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Memories of Barnstable Harbor
All harbors have echoes, and in Barnstable those reverberations include the sounds of packet ships carrying goods and passengers to and from Boston, a busy trade in ice, fuel and fish at Freezer Point, commercial fishermen harvesting bluefin tuna from weirs a few miles offshore or gathering sea scallops in the Bay. Even the nineteenth century shore whalers, whose loads of blubber were rendered into oil at the try-works located on Sandy Neck, have a place in the harbor’s past...
Chasing silver fish for the silver screen, planning for the future
At 4:30 am the Chatham Fish Pier had been awake for a few hours, but the town was still quiet as a cameraman and television series host strode down a metal gangplank that led to fishing vessel Noah II. “I’m just going to grab a survival suit,” said Captain Doug Feeney as he jumped off his boat.
In the belly of the fish
There is a memorable scene in the 1975 movie “Jaws,” when Chief Brody watches as Hooper cuts open the stomach of a large shark. Their intent is to determine if the shark consumed a human (it hadn’t). Recently, there has been a growing body of research focused on just that question: What’s inside the bellies of fish? Many of us have seen images of large patches of sea trash, but some scientists are more concerned with what you can’t see, micro-plastics, fragments of five millimeters or less...
Whole Foods highlights, and celebrates, local fish
Longtime commercial fisherman Greg Walinski stopped fishing with longlines for awhile, but now he’s back. “I got back into it this winter thanks to Whole Foods,” the Yarmouth resident told a roomful of Whole Foods employees at the grocery chain’s headquarters in Marlborough. About 50 people who manage seafood sales in stores across the Northeast had gathered for a day-long conference...
Over the Bar
This issue of “Small Boats, Big Ideas” shifts our focus for just a moment. We turn from finfish -- groundfish, flatfish, roundfish -- toward that other kind of fish that chooses to build its bones on the outside, as armor: Shellfish. The food and livelihoods shellfish provide have always played a crucial role. But their pursuit has never been the stuff of romance and legend the way offshore fishing stokes our imaginations...
From scratch: A hand-crafted history in Harwich
Fisherman Mike Russo examined a decades-old clamming rake he had brought from the garage into the kitchen. His soot-colored cat George sniffed it warily. “I paid a lot of bills with that sum’ bitch,” he said with a grin.Russo said the first rake he bought he tore the teeth right off it when he went quahogging. Ron Ribb took one look at that rake, then at burly Russo, and said he’d fix the problem...
