George V. Jackson, III (b. 1957) is a third-generation commercial fisherman working out of St. Bernard, Louisiana. He was born on February 13, 1957, in New Orleans, Louisiana to George Jackson Jr. (born September 28, 1934, in New Orleans) and Odurna Jackson (born December 12, 1937, in New Orleans). His father was a part-time commercial fisherman, concurrently with being a baker and a millwright. In the late 1960s, his father became a full-time commercial fisherman. His father’s family worked at Jackson Brewery in New Orleans and fished. His mother was the first woman bus driver in St. Bernard Parish. Her family were carpenters. Jackson has two children, Laura (born July 7, 1985) and Shelby (born August 17, 1992). Jackson quit school in the eighth grade to become a fisherman. At the time of this interview in 2012, he was still a commercial fisherman, living on his savings, weathering very hard times for the fishing industry of the Louisiana wetlands. He enjoys fishing, hunting, cars, and motorcycles.

Scope and Content Note:
The subjects he discusses include: Commercial fishing, multigenerational fishing family, species gathered/seen, crabbing, regulations, Gulf Coast Conservation Activists, species overpopulation, overfishing, marketing catch, shrimp, costs of fishing, salinity issues, barrier islands, disappearing wetlands, need to rebuild wetlands, saltwater intrusion into wetlands, testing food safety of seafood, finfishing, gillnets, BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, Corexit dispersant, Vessels of Opportunity, lost-income claim against BP, Hurricane Katrina of 2005, changes in equipment and techniques, boats, oysters, spillways, crab traps, shrimp nets, night fishing, invasive species, squalls.