. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Photo by Neil Caudle. Margaret and Murphey Hopkins fish and keeping records than she does fishing. It has never worried her to be the only woman on a boat. "In all the years I fished, no fisherman ever in- sulted me,'' she says. But she admits that she's had to re- mind crewmen of their manners once or twice. On one fishing trip a few years ago, she found some of the crew reading "girlie ; '' I asked them nice the first time,'' she recalls.' 'Then I had to fe//them, 'Put those girl
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Photo by Neil Caudle. Margaret and Murphey Hopkins fish and keeping records than she does fishing. It has never worried her to be the only woman on a boat. "In all the years I fished, no fisherman ever in- sulted me,'' she says. But she admits that she's had to re- mind crewmen of their manners once or twice. On one fishing trip a few years ago, she found some of the crew reading "girlie ; '' I asked them nice the first time,'' she recalls.' 'Then I had to fe//them, 'Put those girlie magazines away.' But when I came back in after while, there they were out again, lying right there on the table. That was when the girlie magazines went ; Margaret sees no reason why young women shouldn't aspire to be commercial fishermen, if they're willing to work. She says there's nothing unfeminine about fishing. Murphy agrees with her. "I'd always rather have her on a boat with me than some man," he says. Femininity, according to Margaret, is a matter of the mind. "I have feminine thoughts," she says, "but I can do a man's work. And I love a boat more than any man ever loved a boat. Being out there on the water, well, it's bet- ter than a trip to the psychiatrist. It eases your ; Fisherman's life troubles wives who wait at home Women don't have to be on the boat culling fish or mending nets to be involved in commercial fishing. Often the fisherman's wife who never leaves the dock contributes significantly to her husband's occupation. She is the one who is understanding of the long hours fishermen put in, the fluctuations in catch and pay and the heavy expenses fishing sometimes incurs. In a Sea Grant study, Marcus Hepburn and Jim Sabella, two sociologists, talked with fishermen's wives at Harkers Island about commercial fishing. They wanted to find out how the women felt about their husbands' occupation and how it affecte
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