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When John Our was a kid, he’d go out to sea with his father and see enormous factory trawlers from Russia and Poland catch so much herring it would take days to cut all the fish.
Small boats from the Cape that relied on groundfish wouldn’t stick around because once herring were gone, so were the cod and haddock that fed on them.
More than 50 years later, the foreign fleet is a memory, pushed beyond 200 miles by federal law. But there still is no herring.
Carlos Barbosa, a leading figure in the Brazilian community, is frustrated that some students are so hungry they check the high school dumpster for food that has been thrown away.
Michael Mecenas, founder of Health Ministry USA in Hyannis, says he knows people who fished in their homeland of Brazil but now that they are on the Cape, they aren’t seeing similar opportunities.
While in Washington, D.C., Aubrey Church, policy manager at Fishermen’s Alliance, was sitting with representatives of 120-foot trawlers, Alaska Berring Sea Crabbers, Oregon’s distant water fleet, and drift and setnet salmon fishermen – all members of Seafood Harvesters of America.
Seafood Harvesters of America, a national commercial fisheries organization, had long been advised that building alliances between commercial fishermen who don’t always agree pays dividends on Capital Hill.
By Haynes Mahoney
When it first came to life in March, 1917, the 100-foot stack belching plumes of smoke from its coal-fired engines, buckets of fish rising to freezers in the five-story building, it must have been an incredible disruption to the quiet marshside world of Yarmouth Port at the end of Wharf Lane. The local stockholders hoped the Bay State Freezer Company, Inc. would bring them riches.
Zach Fyke is a biological science technician with Northeast Fisheries Science Center as well as a skilled photographer. Along with data gathered on a September research cruise, he also captured many intriguing images of sea life in the Gulf of Maine that he allowed us to share in this gallery.
Our mantra here at the Fishermen’s Alliance is that when it comes to fishing, and eating fish, local is where it’s at.
We make the case all kinds of ways:
We know that our fish is the healthiest and best in the world.
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