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Photo Courtesy of Christopher Seufert

Another way to lessen the damage: Fuel subsidies

January 27, 2021

As the pandemic descended on us all, here at the Alliance we kept racking our brains to come up with ways we could respond, ways we could help local fishermen stay on the water and stay in business. We worked with captains and crew one-on-one to make sure they were lined up to receive the state and federal support they deserve. We worked with local and state officials to create more opportunities for direct sales off boats and docks...

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A wharf factored big in the history of Hyannis. Picture courtesy of Cape Cod Maritime Museum.

Small Boats. Big Ideas. December. 2020

January 13, 2021

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Ken Baughman, far right, took the Fishermen Alliance's safety training course. Salty Broad Studios photo.

From starfish to scup, a fisherman's journey

December 30, 2020

On a warm, breezy fall day, Ken Baughman was within sight of Woods Hole’s stone pier fishing for tautog in a boat of his own making. With his dog Lucy in the bow, he cast into one of his favorite spots, came up empty handed, but still was all smiles. “I love rod and reel fishing,” he said. “People ask, ‘What would you do if you had a million dollars?’ I would go out and go fishing...

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Lobstermen try and stay on the water by innovating.

Working to stay on the water and protect whales

December 30, 2020

When more than 1400 people logged onto a virtual event the New England Aquarium hosted to discuss the documentary “Entangled,” focusing on the plight and politics of the right whale, there was one overriding question: “Do you think the lobster fishery and right whales can co-exist?”

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John and Alicia Morgan have started a new company giving new life to old lobster line.

A new use for old lobster line

December 30, 2020

On a crisp fall Saturday, John Morgan drove his battered red pick-up onto a long dirt road that runs along the Chatham Municipal Airport. The bed of the truck was full of lobster trap line of varying thickness and colors; a lobsterman, getting rid of old gear from a storage spot there, had helped sling it aboard. The gear travelled to Sandwich where it joined dozens of coils...

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Don Stucke, curator at the Cape Cod Maritime Museum, with the location of Hyannis’ former fish shanties over his shoulder, nearby and below today’s Cape Cod Hospital.

When Hyannis had a railroad spur jutting into Lewis Bay

December 30, 2020

“The fish shanties were right over there,” said Don Stucke, curator at the Cape Cod Maritime Museum in Hyannis, as he gestured across the inner harbor of Lewis Bay. “That white house over my shoulder on Lewis Bay Road, you can see it in the old photo of the shanties. Of course Cape Cod Hospital wasn’t there by a long shot.” Most histories of Hyannis and its harbor don’t say much about commercial fishing, and these days most people don’t think of Hyannis as a fishing port as much as a ferry terminal, home for big pleasure craft, a place for the Kennedys to come about...

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The far end of the Hyannis wharf was L-shaped, allowing for buildings and a turnaround.

PHOTO GALLERY: A forgotten wharf

December 30, 2020

Hyannis Harbor has gone through many transformations in its centuries of use, but none more dramatic than the period from the 1850s into the early twentieth century, when a long railroad spur and wharf turned Hyannis into a major maritime hub. Few vestiges of that commercial expression remain, replaced by other kinds of economic activity that reflect the changing economy of the Cape, more focused on summer, tourism, and ferry traffic...

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Despite it all, or maybe because of it all, some achievements

December 30, 2020

Even after a year that will be remembered as one of the most challenging in our lifetimes, there are good things to hold onto and play forward. This is not one of those “glass half full” comments. It’s more a celebration of resilience and creativity, strengths that have always defined Cape Cod’s fishing community, attributes that take on even more importance as thing get tougher...

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The Cape has many ports with many personalities. This picture was taken in Wellfleet.

Small Boats. Big Ideas. November

December 08, 2020

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Captain Mike Rego takes a look at data his sensors recorded.

What made “the blob” in Cape Cod Bay?

November 25, 2020

Captain Mike Rego was on his lobster boat the Miss Lilly at the pier in Provincetown Harbor on a raw, blustery fall day when a man approached and grabbed a line. Rego smiled, yelled hello and told him to take whatever he wanted. The fellow picked up some Jonah crabs that were soaking in the water, as he had many times before, said thanks and was on his way...

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Scallops are a sustainable fishery and make a good meal.

Meeting the Fleet while cooking scallops

November 25, 2020

Dozens of people had swung through parking lots, picking up a bounty of local fare to prepare a carefully orchestrated meal of “scallop crudo”: turnips, shallots, dill and other ingredients accompanying the star -- freshly caught dayboat scallops. Now they were home, gathered around computers, ipads and phones to learn from Chef Daniel Coté of the recently opened Pelham House Resort in Dennisport...

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Seth Rolbein serves up chowder at the MIT campus, with safety protocols observed. Photo by Rob Vincent.

Haddock chowder goes to university

November 25, 2020

Mark Hayes, Director of Campus Dining at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s campus in Cambridge, was offered the opportunity to serve students haddock chowder offered by a small, commercial fishing advocacy group on Cape Cod, aka the Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance. Hayes mentioned it to his colleague Heather Ryall. “He said, ‘This just fell in my lap,’” Ryall, the associate director of dining, said...

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