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Paul Gasek has kept some mementos, such as this fid, of his time commercial fishing. Photo by Doreen Leggett.

“Deadliest Catch” producer remembers commercial fishing in Chatham

August 25, 2019

Paul Gasek has a Novi skiff at Sesuit Harbor in Dennis and heads out to fish among the bigger, yacht-like boats that boast an accoutrement of fish-finding electronics. If he catches fish, he throws a buoy on the spot and keeps drifting on it. He calls it “the other GPS,” the Gasek Positioning System. “It’s the oldest analog marker in the book,” he says...

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A young Paul Gasek documented his time on the Pocahontas.

PHOTO GALLERY: Aboard the Pocahontas 1976

August 25, 2019

This sequence of shots were all taken by Paul Gasek on a two-day trip aboard the Pocahontas, with Dave Jerauld and Ned Crockett in 1976. Although no one knew it then, Gasek would go on to create a reality commercial fishing series that would win an Emmy.

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Photo Courtesy of Christopher Seufert

So you think you know what ‘groundfish’ means?

August 25, 2019

A straightforward word like “groundfish” should have a straightforward definition. But in the complicated world of fisheries management, even defining “groundfish” can get downright confusing. Are groundfish those fish that spend their lives swimming along the bottom? That would make sense, but when it comes to fishing regulations, the answer to that would be, Yes and no...

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Brewster Conservation Day turned on youngsters to protecting the ocean.

Small Boats, Big Ideas. July. 2019

August 01, 2019

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Captain Ronnie Braun can't remember a day where he hasn't been on the water. Staff photo by Doreen Leggett

Conch fishing in the Sound

July 24, 2019

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. He always wondered what they were, but since he was catching thousands of pounds of cod a day, he didn’t think much of it. “I thought those days would never end,” Braun said. But they did...

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Captain Mark Leach and a rather substantially-sized friend. Photo courtesy of Kara Dodge

Scientist studies how to keep leatherbacks moving like foul balls; outside the lines

July 24, 2019

When Kara Dodge, a scientist at the New England Aquarium, began doing leatherback sea turtle research more than a dozen years ago, she turned to local fishermen for help. “We didn’t have a lot of money so we were relying on them for access and one of the very first people who helped us get out to an entangled leatherback was Mark Leach,” Dodge remembered...

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The Brenners are among the many who enjoyed Brewster Conservation Day this month. Staff photo by Doreen Leggett

Fisheries and conservation go hand in hand

July 24, 2019

Logan Jones, 7 years old, and his brother Caleb, 5, were having the time of their lives raking up clams in a big sand box. “I guess we’ll have to get a family shellfish permit,” their grandmother laughed as her grandsons kept Dennis Morris, from the Brewster Natural Resources and Shellfish Department, busy re-burying shells. The Joneses were not the only ones looking for a family permit to dig shellfish...

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Henry Stellwagen, the first to chart Stellwagen Bank. Photo courtesy of NOAA.

Why we call it Stellwagen Bank

July 24, 2019

Once upon a time there was a man named Henry Stellwagen. Actually, we know when that time was, the mid-1800s, and we know that Henry served in the United States Navy and rose to the rank of lieutenant commander. But that’s not why his name is still spoken by many people who fish, whale watch, or just like being on the water. The reason we pause to wonder about good old Henry Stellwagen is that a swath of nearby water is named after him; Stellwagen Bank...

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“I see a lot my work here in Maine as building off my experiences on Cape Cod,” says Ben Martens,.  Photo courtesy of Ben Martens.

Alumni revisited: Catching up with Ben

July 24, 2019

Former Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance policy analyst Ben Martens first fell in love with fisheries work when he was employed by a small non-profit in Boston, but he credits his time with the Fishermen’s Alliance as inspiration for his current job. Martens is back on the Maine coast, where he once pursued environmental studies at Bowdoin College, now serving as Executive Director of Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association...

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Photo Courtesy of Christopher Seufert

Remembering days on the back of the boat

July 24, 2019

“It hasn’t always been this way.” Fishermen say that a lot, and they mean it in a sad or nostalgic way. I have my own nostalgia but it’s a little different. My biggest changes have come because I no longer have time to work on the water, even part-time. These days I work rooms, phones, and meetings, trying to do my best navigating political currents to keep this small-boat fleet alive...

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Small Boats, Big Ideas. June 2019

Small Boats, Big Ideas. June 2019

July 19, 2019

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Rob Martin is ahead of regulators when it comes to modifying gear to protect whales. . Staff photo by Doreen Leggett

A life-long lobsterman also works hard on ways to avoid whales

June 25, 2019

Rob Martin was five miles out on his boat, Resolve, lobstering with his crew, and made a call on his way back to port. Martin wasn’t calling his buyer. He was joining a conference call for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Team, of which he is a member. Martin intended to just listen, but they started talking about gear modifications, which he knows a good deal about...

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