. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Qriffith writes of the close ties between coastal communities and the sea — from precolonial Algonquins to the thriving herring fisheries in the early 1900s. Now young adults are less. — from precolonial Algonquins to the thriving herring fisheries in the early 1900s. Now young adults are less likely to have such a strong connection to full-time fishing. And even middle-aged and older fishers take land jobs to make ends meet — often losing the independence of fishing and their intimate links to the water.
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Qriffith writes of the close ties between coastal communities and the sea — from precolonial Algonquins to the thriving herring fisheries in the early 1900s. Now young adults are less. — from precolonial Algonquins to the thriving herring fisheries in the early 1900s. Now young adults are less likely to have such a strong connection to full-time fishing. And even middle-aged and older fishers take land jobs to make ends meet — often losing the independence of fishing and their intimate links to the water. "Full-time fishers see it happening all the time. They notice that fishers who leave fishing for a full-time job ashore, phasing back to part-time fishing, slowly lose the ability and perhaps the motivation to continue monitoring and protecting the resource," Griffith writes. Picking Out Patterns Griffith's studies of the seafood processing industry began with a Sea Grant project in 1985. He watched as scallop houses remained family-oriented operations, while crab processors began hiring Mexican women on special visas. "I am still studying seafood processing. There has been fascinating change," he says. In fact, in his book, the chapter on "Vanishing Women" is one of his favorites. "Why vanishing? Because, historically, North Carolina's crab pickers slipped into the recesses of coastal counties after leaving the plants. Daily and at the end of the season, they returned to neighborhoods along back roads and inside small coastal communities that few people who eat the fruits of their labor will ever see," Griffith writes. But by the mid-1980s, fewer local women, white or black, were seeking the seasonal picking jobs that would send them home with the smell of crabs and a paycheck based not on hours, but on the pounds of meat picked. Griffith is able to compare the introduction of the workers on H2 visas from Mexico to the use of forei
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