Harvesting the Bay Fathers, Sons and the Last of the Wild Shellfishermen

Name: Harvesting the Bay Fathers, Sons and the Last of the Wild Shellfishermen
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ISBN: 9780762770427

ISBN-10: 0762770422

ISBN-13: 9780762770427

Edition: 2012

Authors: Ray Huling

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“If we mean to change our ways, how will we do it? How will we make our food and our system of food production healthy, sustainable, and secure? How will we make them, in a word, sane? Who will do this work?” Ray Huling knows the hard realities of shell fishing. His father and grandfathers were shell-fishermen on Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay, laborers in an age-old trade. As a third generation quahauger, the industry is his life, and the drive to keep it sustainable is what makes up his family history. InBullrakers, Huling answers these pressing questions and delivers a moving portrait of the men and women who work the waters of the Atlantic coast in the harsh environment of the…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, The
Publication date: 7/3/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Ray Hulingis a third-generation quahauger. Drawing on his own history with shellfishing, he has written extensively about marine affairs for the town of East Greenwich, Rhode Island. Huling has a graduate degree from New York University's School of Journalism. In addition, he was a Fellow in the Reynolds Program in Social Entrepreneurship. He is a contributor to on-line magazines and has written about new media and entertainment.



Introduction: A Bullraker's Portrait



Cove, Bay, and Bay



The Feast of '85



Their Hardship, in Their Own Words



Water in a Dry Boat



Bullrake Men, Bullrake Women



Eulogies and Secret Codes



Young Guys



Food or Money



The Point of Quahogging



The Man Who Doesn't Eat Quahogs



Of Unions and Associations



Old-Timers Gone



The Coin of the Fish