On September 26, 2004, Millie Rahn interviewed Deb and Ron Schrader as part of the Working Waterfront Festival Community Documentation Project. Ron was raised in a fishing family, and knew he wanted to be a fisherman from an early age, and made his way along the coast from North Carolina to New Bedford, MA, where he achieved his goal of becoming a captain. Deb grew up in New Bedford, but it wasn’t until she met Ron that she became involved in the local fishing industry. Her growing interest in the fishing community inspired her to become a paralegal, using these skills to found Shore Support, a fishermen's advocacy organization, with the goal to give fishermen a voice in the regulatory process. Deb shares further details about her work, including her work to dismantle the Magnuson Act and the Sustainable Fisheries Act, noting that many other sources of pollution and environmental factors that affect fish populations were ignored in favor of placing most of the blame on the fishing industry. Both acknowledge the importance of collaboration between scientists and fishermen to create accurate and sustainable regulations, with Ron saying, “If they’re going to create the rules, they gotta have good data for conservation measures, for the fish, for the people, everyone’s gotta come out of this okay, not just the fish or the people.  Fishermen don’t want it to be in a situation where we’re depleting the resource…We’re working with these people, and they’re working with us.”