. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Wtorv t\. Store Afun. A commercial fishing boat leaves the island at dawn than half of these fish full time; the rest piece together incomes from boat- building or outside jobs. But though they are few in number, these fisher- men are exceedingly diverse in the ways they work- They trawl, dredge, net. rake. kick, hook and tong almost [everything that swims in the salt. I One of their most striking qualities, Hepburn says, is their inventiveness. Harkers Island fishermen developed, apparently independently
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Wtorv t\. Store Afun. A commercial fishing boat leaves the island at dawn than half of these fish full time; the rest piece together incomes from boat- building or outside jobs. But though they are few in number, these fisher- men are exceedingly diverse in the ways they work- They trawl, dredge, net. rake. kick, hook and tong almost [everything that swims in the salt. I One of their most striking qualities, Hepburn says, is their inventiveness. Harkers Island fishermen developed, apparently independently of other regions, a way of catching shrimp: channel-netting. Harkers Islanders began making channel nets in the 1930s, and the gear was almost un- known elsewhere along the East Coast until recently, when its fuel-saving ad- vantages made it attractive to fisher- men to the south. A channel net looks something like a trawl, but it is anchored in place in or near a channel with a good tidal current and is fished at ebb tide, when the currents sometimes carry shrimp in swarms. Once the net is set, a fishermen posi- tions his boat over the net, shuts down his engine, and empties a tail bag full of shrimp every 20 minutes or so. "One night "I was aboard with a fisherman when he harvested a thou- sand pounds of shrimp in five hours," Hepburn recalls. "His total gas cost was about two ; Big trawlers often catch more shrimp, but they can burn hundreds of gallons of fuel, at well over a dollar a gallon. There are 22 or 23 good channel net locations around Harkers Island but a spot called "Gold Mine," in the "straits" between the island and the mainland, is considered to be the best. The islanders have developed a rigorous set of unwritten laws govern- ing prime spots like Gold Mine. To es- tablish his right to channel net in a popular location, a fisherman must first "lay on a ; For example, if James is fishing Gold Min
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