Anonymous, #17
Cumulative Effects in New Jersey Fisheries
The "Cumulative Effects and New Jersey Fisheries" Project was funded by the New Jersey Sea Grant College Program, New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium. Dr. Bonnie McCay and Dr. Kevin St. Martin of Rutgers University were the principal investigators of this project and interviews were conducted primarily by Dr. Grant Murray (now at Vancouver Island University) and Mike Danko (New Jersey Sea Grant College Program, New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium). These interviews had 2 principal goals: 1) to document the cumulative effects of regulatory change on the people, businesses and communities most directly dependent on New Jersey's fisheries; and 2) to create a history of New Jersey's commercial and recreational fisheries through the oral histories of people involved in them. Identifying information has been stripped from these interviews in order to preserve anonymity. Thanks to the 44 fish harvesters that participated in oral history interviews.
At the time of the interview the individual was a 65 year old male semi-retired individual fishing out of Point Pleasant, New Jersey. Previously he has been engaged in a number of different fisheries, surf and hard clams, cod, mixed-species gill nets, scallops and mixed-species dragger fishing. Interview provides a fair amount of detail about the clam fishery in the 1950's and 1960's. Throughout the 1990's he has been engaged in the relay clam fishery, and recently has gotten back into fishing after his son was injured (while fishing).
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