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Just back from World War II, the Fulhams took over their father's declining fish business, which sold its catch in a wildly fluctuating seasonal market. The brothers decided that the way to stabilize was to process and market their fish themselves. They started in 1946 with a 1...
In 1955, after the worst year in the history of Boston's fishing industry, the Fulhams decided that the antiquated fish pier, and its way of doing business, would have to be modernized if the Boston fishing industry was to survive. They quietly began buying stock in the pier...
Whither Mackerel? The Fulhams believe that the New England fishing industry can solve many of its own problems-if only it will. New England fishermen, like others on both the East and West Coasts, have been hard hit by heavy foreign imports (which amounted to 35% of the U.S. consumption...
Boston's fishing fleet has steadily resisted change. Fish are still scooped from the trawlers with pitchforks that damage much of the catch, trundled off in ancient, scale-covered wooden carts, dumped into insanitary oak barrels. The Fulhams plan to install modern handling equipment, are also constructing the pier...
The Fulhams hope that some of the peaks and valleys of supply and demand will be flattened by "freezing in the round"-a method devised by the Fish and Wildlife Service to enable trawlers to gut and freeze fish at sea, stay out while the fishing is good, thus build...