Word: fishermen
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What gives his narration its blood and bones, however, is the fine, boozy picture he sketches of the fishermen's bars of Gloucester, Mass., the Andrea Gail's home port. For the younger fishermen the bars are home and family in the short weeks between the monthlong voyages to the Grand Banks. They make good money, $4,000 or $5,000 a trip, and buy a lot of drinks. At the Crow's Nest Inn on the day the sinking was reported, recalls the girlfriend of one of the drowned men, "everybody was drunk 'cause that's what...
...cost has been severe. The cod populations of the Grand Banks have fallen 95 percent. Populations of breeding-age Atlantic bluefin tuna have fallen more than 90 percent. In many places, the losses of commercial fish stocks have been catastrophic, and in the last decade tens of thousands of fishermen have been forced to abandon their boats. A spokeswoman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that preserving fish habitat -- and therefore the industry -- was "one of the top national priorities." Regional fishery councils will have to identify "essential fish habitat" and the pressures that threaten them. The guidelines...
When the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in 1620, they became the first chapter in the Massachusetts story. Their descendants are farmers in the state's western meadows, computer technicians in Boston and fishermen in the seaports, and they share a reverence for history and local heroes--everyone from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Larry Bird. But the Kennedys remain the state's most potent living legacy to the nation, with three of the clan now in Congress, helping to make politics one of the state's favorite spectator sports. This year, with John Kerry and Bill Weld battling for a Senate seat...
...being ungrounded, rings false. Many of the most commonly fished or hunted species have been stocked in convenient locations only so they may more easily be fished or hunted. For example, inedible fish in Cape Cod ponds were poisoned to death and replaced with trout at the demand of fishermen. Hunters may also cause clearcutting to encourage increases in the populations of their preferred prey. Hunters often cause overpopulation as they claim to control...
...other valuable reef fish are being harvested at a critical point in their reproductive cycle. With satellite navigation systems to guide them, fishing boats are homing in on areas where large numbers of the fish have gathered to spawn. Already, says University of Hong Kong fish biologist Yvonne Sadovy, fishermen have eradicated entire groups of sexually mature adults, which jeopardizes the future of the fish and also the future of the reef...