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.
The lament of a Bourne shellfisherman
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We need to do what we can, and then hope
If all goes well in the next month or so, and with one more push from all of us, next spring we will see the beginnings of some big changes off our coast.
Island ingenuity creates a boat for the ages
People are familiar with the long, sleek lines of the whaling dories of old, and the wide-bodied, single-sailed catboats that were designed for commercial fishing before they became a sailor’s favorite.
After 20 years, final step in herring protection at hand
Many across the Cape say that industrial-sized boats have removed enormous amounts of ocean herring from the inshore, leaving whales, cod, tuna and others to look elsewhere.
Gulf Stream Orphans in Pleasant Bay
When Owen Nichols and Charlie Beggs set out to study lobster settlement in Pleasant Bay, in 2014, both had already been working on the water for a long time so weren’t easily surprised. But that day they were – twice.
The Vineyard’s fisher journalist, poet, and folksinger pulls the pieces together
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.
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