Mr. Irvin Eugene Stork is a retired commercial fisherman. Stork was born on April 23, 1932, in Moss Point, Mississippi, to Mr. Henry W. Stork, a commercial fisherman, and Mrs. Hattie B. Clark Stork. At the time of this interview, Mr. Stork had retired from Dow Chemical Plant and from commercial fishing. He was graduated from high school, after making the All State Basketball team, and he became a captain in the Army during his military service. He enjoys gardening and fishing in his retirement. His children are Tammy, Vickie, Donna, and Edward.

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He talks about Pecan, Mississippi, Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, crawfishing circa 1937, species caught in marsh circa 1937 and 1942, cane-pole fishing, alligators, turtles, baits for fishing, swimming hole circa 1930s, Clark Seafood Factory, commercial fishing with mother boat and rowboats, trammel nets, Mississippi Sound, Chandeleur Island, pogy fish, manually hauled nets, icing catch, regulations, sustainability issues, bycatch, redfish, fishing seasons, finding fish, dangerous bycatch, snakes, hurricanes, Hurricane Katrina, hurricane of 1947, bass, oysters and oyster reefs, barrier islands, gillnets, skipjack, Horn Island, fuel costs, fish prices, marketing catch, oystering, shucking oysters, flounder and floundering with a net, gigging flounders, scooping crabs, tides, other domestic and wild animals of the marsh, cotton and nylon nets, mullet, roe, cast nets, brill nets, changes in wetlands, BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster.