Coastal Maine: Why Are The Fishermen Struggling?

Date: Friday, July 5, 2013 to Friday, July 19, 2013
Our oceans are rapidly changing.

 

Climate change. Overfishing. New technologies. Shifting cultural values. Tourism.

 

As a team we’ve been learning a lot about these changes and how they are affecting the fishing industry. What and How are fisherman and the communities who make a living on the working waterfront doing to survive and adapt their industry? How can their stories help to illuminate a huge and at times unwieldy issue?

 

From July 28 through August 7 we’ll be traveling down the eastern seaboard — from coastal Maine to Gloucester, Massachusetts —probing these issues by striking up conversations with the people we meet along the way.

 

Partner:
Gulf Of Maine Fishermen

Shorts from the Trip

The Noble Task - Tobias Freedner-Matesi

Local? - Alexis McCloud

Trap To Plate - Leroy Storey-Hall

Final Short

Nobody Notices The Green Crab - Ned McEleney And Alexis McCloud

A spontaneous choreography, layered with relevance.

Men And Women Of Fishing, On Coastal Maine - Miles Scanlon

Port Clyde Fresh Catch - Ned McEleney