They Replaced Him With a $200,000 Fishing Machine - His Hand-Net Still Caught More
In 1983, a $200,000 industrial harvesting machine arrived on the Chesapeake Bay - and the waterman everyone expected it to replace just kept fishing. Ray Caulfield had worked the same shallow flats for thirty years with a hand-thrown cast net and a composition notebook full of tide records no one else could read. When the machine came with its hydraulic crane and its Baltimore cannery contract, the harbor wrote him off. What happened next is the story of what machines cannot buy and knowledge cannot be taken from. ─── Subscribe for more stories from the water. Drop a comment: what did this man's notebook mean to you? ─── #ChesapeakeBay #WorkingWaterman #FishingHistory #AmericanCraftsmanship #TidewaterTales
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