Fish Tales

After years of research, discussions, and painstaking planning, the Cape Cod Fisheries Trust had a rather unusual beginning.

Dumitru Babes had came to the United States from Romania and one day he was hanging out with close friends watching the movie “Arthur.”

On both sides of his family, as far back as he can trace, Charlie Dodge descends from commercial fishermen.

Rob Curtis is proud to be a shellfisherman and can’t imagine doing anything else, but when he and some fellow Bourne comrades see commercial guys from Falmouth selling an abundant catch, they cringe.

Mark Alan Lovewell drove his silver pickup past the Edgartown Yacht Club, where swordfish used to land, past the marina at Oak Bluffs, which used to be stuffed with commercial fishing vessels, past a seasonal fish market, and on toward Menemsha, a port that has become quieter in recent years.

DATELINE: 0420641N, 0671456W, 145.2 Mi  SW of Clark’s Harbour , NS

When Ronnie Braun was a young fisherman captaining the Peggy B, he used to cruise by buoys strung in a line, and they weren’t marking lobster traps.

Rob Martin was five miles out on his boat, Resolve, lobstering with his crew, and made a call on his way back to port.

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.