J. J. Dutra is the author of Nautical Twilight, a book that answers the question: where have all the fishing boats gone? Ms. Dutra has also written two fictional murder mysteries set in the 1930's, The Fishermen's Ball and Dead Low Tide. She blogs about her life as the wife of a commercial fishermen, the stories, the boats, and characters, as well as the death of her husband in 2016.
Saturday, January 7, 2012
1:00 pm arrives inner harbor, Gloucester. Boat's not leaking a drop. The harbor is very quiet, so few boats. No one moving except him, he didn't see any draggers or fishing boats, only a couple of lobstermen. It's eerie not to see marine traffic. Once inside he tied to a nice little aluminum boat, perhaps a research vessel doing inventory of the Stillwagen Marine Sanctuary. I always think of Quasimoto when I hear 'Sanctuary' that said - having just crossed Cape Cod Bay and entered the North Shore you'd expect to see someone fishing. When we fished on the Middle Bank we always had company: the Nauset, the Shirley & Roland, the 'Siver Mink', always others there looking and hoping for fish. On one of the calmest days we've seen in months, Dave and the Richard & Arnold found themselves on Stillwagon - this time no one had a net in the water.
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