John German
Southern New England American Lobster Fishery Oral History Project
This project collects oral histories from lobstermen and resource managers in Connecticut and New York.
John German is a lifelong fisherman based in Long Island. He has decades of experience with fishing, especially with lobster, as he is one of the few people left with a lobster fishing license. He is an invaluable source of information concerning lobsters as well as Long Island fishing as a whole, as he was a firsthand witness to the 1990s lobster die-off and has spent his entire life fishing in the region.
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