Voices of the Bay

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    Principal Investigator:
    Chelsea Prindle, Lisa Uttal
  • In The Capturing the Voices of the Bay Education Program, students take responsibility for their own learning experience as they research, plan, and conduct personal interviews, first with each other and then with citizens of the community, to capture the rich stories, traditions, and knowledge that define Monterey’s fishing legacy. This place-based learning experience allows students the opportunity to deeply explore the historic, economic, environmental, and cultural dimensions of their particular “place” in the world and, perhaps more importantly, how all these dimensions inter-connect through the lives of those who live and work in the region.

Interviewee Collection Sort descending Description Interviewer Date of Interview Location of Interview Affiliation
Joey Jones Voices of the Bay

Joey Jones was a commercial fisherman who fished for salmon, albacore, anchovies, and herring along the central California coast. He speaks of how he got into commercial fishing, the boats he owned, and how the industry changed during the forty years he fished. Unfortunately, Joey Jones was lost at sea on April 3, 2008.

Lisa Uttal, Seaberry Nachbar Unknown Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
Jim Anderson Voices of the Bay

Jim Anderson is a local fisherman in Half Moon Bay who followed his father's footsteps of becoming a fisherman. Like any fisherman's tradition, he built his own commercial boat and named it after his mother, Allaine. He fishes for salmon in the summer and crab in the winter and is vastly involved with fishery politics and policies. He's putting a class together with Half Moon Bay High School and trains individuals to survive on a boat and the ocean.

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David Crabbe Voices of the Bay

David Crabbe is a wetfish fisherman, also known as squid fisherman. He explains the complicated practice behind squid fishing starting from the preparation of the boat to the knitting of torn nets; he also shares his fishing experience. He is a first generation fisherman in Monterey Bay, been fishing for more than 25 years, started fishing in high school and worked his way up to earn his first boat. He explains the different type of corks that are used to suspend the net up in surface water.

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Jane De Lay, Part 1 Voices of the Bay

Jane De Lay is a female fisherman who has been fishing since 2003. She started in a conservation as a environmentalist for Save Our Shores, working on conserving and protecting the ocean from pollution and habitat protection, one day she was invited to go fishing and she was hooked. She specializes in salmon, crab, rockfish, albacore, and sometimes squid and goes fish trolling. She fishes in a boat that's 34 feet, single hull, and it's made out of fiber glass. When she fishes for salmon she only catches Chinook salmon in California waters.

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Jane De Lay, Part 2 Voices of the Bay

Jane De Lay is a female fisherman who has been fishing since 2003. She started in a conservation as a environmentalist for Save Our Shores, working on conserving and protecting the ocean from pollution and habitat protection, one day she was invited to go fishing and she was hooked. She specializes in salmon, crab, rockfish, albacore, and sometimes squid and goes fish trolling. She fishes in a boat that's 34 feet, single hull, and it's made out of fiber glass. When she fishes for salmon she only catches Chinook salmon in California waters.

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John Del Rosario Voices of the Bay

John is Northern California Abalone Farmer. In this interview he starts with the history of abalones; how they were mainly found in Asia and Asian cultured dishes, and the main consumers of abalones in America are the Asian community. Then he shares to his audience the hardships of raising baby Abalones to adulthood in their facility. He also makes a comparison between ocean-caged raised abalones and land farm abalones, and how his land-farmed facility has more controlled over raising abalones.

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Mike Hudson Voices of the Bay

Mike Hudson is a very selective Northern California Salmon and Crab Fisherman born in Reno Nevada, raised in Germany, and he currently reside in Berkeley. Hudson comes from a long line of Native American fisherman from Canada. He finds joy in catching fish and going to the Farmer's Market with his wife and seeing the satisfaction in his buyers' faces. Hudson explains to his audience that a fisherman hardly gets lost at sea because of the technologies and gizmos in the boat, and if that fails fisherman analyzes which way the waves and wind blows then sail towards shore.

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Alan Lovewell Voices of the Bay

Originally from a small fishing community on the east coast, Alan Lovewell came to California for school, and soon realized most Californians were not eating seafood from California. Understanding the importance of connecting the local fishing industry to the Monterey Bay community, Alan and his business partner started Local Catch Monterey, a community supported fishery (CSF). Local Catch Monterey has relationships with many of the local fishermen in the Monterey Bay Sanctuary and delivers local, fresh, sustainable seafood to consumers on a weekly basis.

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Jim Moser Voices of the Bay

Jim Moser a local fisherman of salmon and albacore for thirty-seven years up and down the west coast. He admits that science has changed a fisherman's method of fishing and searching for fish has become more efficient. Monetary has changed as well; sometimes a fisherman's price offers does not agree with the market's pocket. Moser believes that salmon season would start back up again when policy makers finally fix the problem with water conditions and nature would take over after that.

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Jiri Nozicka, Part 1 Voices of the Bay

Though he comes from the ocean-less land of the Czech Republic, Jiri Nozicka has developed a masterful understanding of fishing and its benefits. He explains that fishing as an industry does more than just put fresh fish in the hungry mouths of tourists every day, but provides a multitude of jobs at various levels within the fish to table process. Even those who work 9-5 jobs in processing plants or transporting the fish rely upon those who catch the actual product for their livelihood, an important symbiotic relationship that Jiri brings to light.

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