At the most terrifying moment, storm overwhelming a ship, wind howling, waves off the bars pounding the hull, deck awash, many a fisherman and mariner has faced horrifying options:
Charting the Past
OUR STORY TOLD BY ANOTHER
CHATHAM – When local shellfishermen wanted help setting up a meeting with officials from the state division of marine fisheries to discuss changes in regulations governing quahog size, they turned to an unlikely source: The Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance.
200 YEARS OF COD FISHING IN PROVINCETOWN
Commercial fishing transformed Provincetown generations ago, close to 700 boats filling the port, salted cod covering flat surfaces all along the waterfront.
SUPERSTITIONS AREN’T ABOUT HALLOWEEN, BUT IT’S A FUN TIME TO REMEMBER THEM
Lobsterman Rob Martin was out with a crewman years ago when the fellow tried to gaff a sea gull that landed on the boat.
WOMEN’S WORK CAPTURED IN PHOTOS AND EXHIBIT
Peggi Joseph, long dark hair tied in a ponytail, blue sweatshirt and matching rubber gloves peeking out of orange Grundens, makes quick work of packing thousands of pounds of haddock.
HISTORY SAYS DON’T CALL IT ‘MAYONNAISE,’ USE ‘CUSTARD’
“Black mayonnaise” is an evocative phrase used around harbors to describe a muck that builds in shallow waters, a thick carpet of ooze that smothers life and creates dead bottom where we’d all rather see sand, eel grass, and creatures with shells and little fins.
OLD SCHOOL FISHERMEN IMMORTALIZED IN SNAPSHOTS
An old fisherman stands by the trap dock in Stage Harbor, looking to the heavens, hat in one hand, mooring chain in the other.
THE COUNTRY’S CONNECTION TO SCIENCE AND FISHERMEN STARTED ON CAPE COD
On February 9, 1871, President Ulysses S. Grant signed the law that created the Fish Commission. It was the nation’s first federal conservation and environmental research agency and began in a shed in Woods Hole.
FROM BROAD NOOK TO PRINCE’S COVE
Paupmunnock, a Native leader at the time of the Europeans’ arrival, had his home on Prince’s Cove in what is now Marstons Mills, Barnstable, a favorite Wampanoag site for 10,000 years according to archaeological records.
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