On July 28, 1975, Elsa Keil Sichel interviewed Dr. Herbert Graham, Bertha Veeder Hill, and Peggy Clark Kelley for the Fishing and Fisheries Oral History Collection at the Woods Hole Library in Massachusetts. The interview was part of a historical conversation series at the Woods Hole Library, focusing on the history of the Fisheries. The main topic is the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries in Woods Hole. The first speaker is Peggy Clark Kelley. She speaks of her grandfather, Edward Linton, who came to Woods Hole with Director Spencer Baird in 1882 when Linton was a student at Yale.

Herman Bruce, a retired fisherman hailing from New Bedford, Massachusetts, holds a legacy of 55 years within the fishing industry. With ancestral roots tracing back to Newfoundland, Herman's family immigrated to the United States during the 1930s. Herman's father initially cast his nets in New London, CT, before eventually anchoring in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Herman's earliest memories are of the sea, as he began his journey assisting in the maintenance of his father's fishing vessel.

Hilary Dombrowski, 64, is a commercial fisherman out of Gloucester, Massachusetts. He began fishing around age 10, progressively buying and operating larger boats. He now jigs for cod and tub trawls for haddock, in the inshore. He is a member of the common pool because quota allocations were assigned based on years during which there were a great deal of regulations, thus limiting catch for many in the region. As a small fisherman, there is no real avenue for him to get into a sector, as it is quite expensive.

Malcolm “Max” Crosby age 85 (born 1893) and Horace M. Crosby Jr.

See, in the latter part of my grandmother being at the lighthouse, President Roosevelt was off the backshore in a government boat on a vacation.  They told him about her being the only woman lighthouse keeper in the country.  He said he would like to meet her.  So, they brought him around, around Provincetown and into Wellfleet Harbor.  They rode him ashore.  He shook hands with my grandmother.

On September 23, 2005, Millie Rahn interviewed Howard Nickerson as part of the Working Waterfront Festival Community Documentation Project. Howard recounts his early life, his transition from vocational school to working in the fishery industry, and the challenges faced during the Great Depression. He discusses his work as an engineer on fishing vessels, primarily involved in sea scalloping, and his involvement with the fishermen's union and his role as a union representative.

On April 23, 1999, Laura Cochran interviewed Irwin Abrams at his home in Acton, Massachusetts, for the Simmons College Oral History Archives. Abrams, a meteorologist, discusses his career trajectory, starting with his education at New York University and his commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Air Force. He describes his entry into the meteorology field through the Air Force’s meteorology program and his first assignment in the Azores, where his forecasting skills were crucial for military flight operations during the Berlin Blockade.

Mr. Najjar grew up in Nantucket and New Bedford. He tells stories of fishing off Sconset Beach in Nantucket and of his Cape Verdean family heritage.

On April 5, 2011, Mason Gilbey interviewed Jack Dooley in Nantucket, Massachusetts, for the Voices of the Fisheries project. Dooley, a retired fisherman and scalloper, was born and raised in Nantucket and spent much of his life working in commercial fishing and yacht delivery. He has extensive experience fishing in Nantucket Harbor and beyond, including work as a charter boat captain and long-distance yacht transporter.

Jack Saunders is an 80-year-old male who was born in 1927 to a Newfoundland fishing family. He is the owner of Pier Oil in New Bedford. Saunders' father owned a couple of boats, one of which was requisitioned by the government during World War II and lost at sea. Saunders began working on the docks at the age of fourteen, lumping during the summer while attending high school [3]. After graduating, he served in the U.S. Navy and then fished with his father for five years. He later worked for his brother's oil tanker business and eventually started his own business.