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.