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Take a piece of paper, grab a pencil, and draw a scientist — or draw one in your mind’s eye. Is “he” holding a test tube, wearing a white coat, standing in a lab and looking like crazy-haired Doc Brown from “Back to the Future”?
That image is far too limiting and not at all what Sarah Oktay, executive director of the Center for Coastal Studies, wants people to conjure.
Thank you, Julia Child.
When John Our first started fishing with his dad Jack, they used to throw monkfish overboard. Then, in the 1980s, Julia Child started cooking so-called poor man’s lobster and sales took off.
“She made monkfish very popular, and it really helped the fleet,” said Our.
Maura Healey and Kim Driscoll – days from becoming Governor Healey and Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll — joined a line of volunteers dishing up chicken, rice and lentils, Brussels sprouts and more lovingly-prepared food boxed and delivered to waiting cars in the parking lot of the former Riverway restaurant in South Yarmouth.
Alex Hay of Wellfleet Shellfish Company was on screen, shucking meaty surf clams for linguiça-infused stuffies, when an audience member following along at home raised a virtual hand.
Jenn Allard of Mainsail Events and Marketing, who had pulled together the Meet the Fleet Zoom for the Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance, encouraged the question as one camera filmed Hay’s cutting board and the other focused on his face.
Morgan Ward, an oyster farmer, was sitting on the tailgate of his truck on the sand flats of Dennis, excited.
“Oysters are best in fall and winter,” Ward said, recorded by a video camera. “Make them a Thanksgiving tradition … Cook them, fry them, roast them. They are magic, they are delicious, they bring people together.”
Ward, in the documentary film “Tide to Table” shown at the Chatham Orpheum Theater last week, wasn’t done with his ode to oysters.
“You are where you eat.”
That phrase, adapted by David Wiley, a scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, goes a long way toward explaining why 45 species of fish, two squids, 16 sea birds and nine marine mammals can be found in sand lance habitat.
Stephanie Sykes, after a day fishing on the F/V Peggy B II, stood behind a folding table at Nauset Marine East in Orleans with several conch shells and a trap.
She looked at a crowd gathered at the Meet the Fleet event and picked up a flat, mottled brown, oblong object. It was about the size of a thumb and looked leathery.
With vats supplied by Tom Smith, Ray Kane swung past lobster traps at Kurt Martin’s house and pulled a big Chatham Fish and Lobster Truck around the back early Saturday, August 6.
Kane, outreach coordinator at the Fishermen’s Alliance, joined other staff members shoveling ice from Martin’s freezer into additional vats that would later hold scallops from Jesse Rose and the F/V Midnight Our, as well as local haddock.
The refrigerated truck then headed to Aquaculture Resource Corporation in Dennis to pick up thousands of shellfish to offload at the big white tent at the Chatham VFW for the 21st annual Hookers Ball.
Temperatures are increasing, sea levels rising. Ocean currents are unpredictable and marine heatwaves bring us to a climate tipping point. Hurricanes follow hard on the heels of one another, creating temporary dead zones.
Estuarine nurseries are shadows, choked by sea level rise, coastal population growth, armoring the coast, and marsh die offs. Productivity plummets and poisonous plankton blooms proliferate.
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