Mr. Robert McDuffie is a subsistence fisherman living in Moss Point, Mississippi. McDuffie was born on March 19, 1941, in Semmes, Alabama, to Robert Lee McDuffie (born April 1, 1905) and Oren Moss McDuffie. He and his wife Jerry were married in Moss Point, Mississippi. They have three children, Stephanie Swinea (born January 2, 1961), Jeffrey McDuffie (born January 18, 1963) and David McDuffie (born March 1, 1970). McDuffie has fished all of his life for subsistence. At the time of this interview he had retired from operating heavy equipment for the Jackson County Road Department, and from housekeeping at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College.

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He talks about Bayou Cumbest, Moss Point, Mississippi, sport fishing, subsistence fishing, fishing equipment circa 1956, cane poles, regulations, nylon line, bait, boats, fuel costs, oysters, BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, public boat launch, preserving catch, floundering, DMR, oyster spat, spawning, marketing catch, changes in species, Hurricane Katrina circa 2005, Hurricane Camille circa 1969, crabbing Mobile Bay, Vietnamese, dredging, litigation against BP, health of fisheries, pollution, sea turtles.