DONATE
Kelp farming has attracted a lot of attention in New England and has been explored as a way to diversify coastal businesses, support working waterfronts, and add another crop for shellfish growers during the quieter winter months.
Sam Linnell looked at a photo of a much younger version of himself with his father and a pile of dogfish on his dad’s boat F/V Perry’s Pride.
“We did really good that day,” he said, glancing at his father, Tim.
On a wall in a back room of the Wellfleet Historical Society hangs a map with locations of dozens of homes and businesses that lined Commercial Street in the 1800s and early 1900s.
The vast majority connected to the fisheries.
Some locals don’t love summer on the Cape. We look forward to high season mainly because of the popularity of the Chatham Fish Pier. With hundreds of thousands of people stopping by, the industry’s cultural and economic importance is front and center — as it should be. As National Seafood Month wraps up, we look back at these summer photos with a reminder to eat local seafood, and advocate for the fleet and working waterfronts all year long.
If you haven’t yet seen some of the most important, disturbing reporting ever done about fisheries around the globe, how fish “farming” really works and the devastating damage it does to our oceans, fish stocks, and communities, take a look at recent work published by The New York Times. It’ll blow you away.
Sara Cornell, a Nauset High graduate and a senior at University of Miami majoring in Marine Affairs and Ecosystem Science and Policy, interned for us this summer. As she headed back to Miami we asked about her experience.
e-Magazine PDF’s