Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Interviewee Collection Sort ascending Description Interviewer Date of Interview Location of Interview Affiliation
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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