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How to Level Your Screen Printing Pallets in 6 Easy Steps
Getting better quality prints with your screen printing press is just six steps away.
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Electric power can give you a big advantage in three main areas of a screen printing press.
If you're shopping for an automatic screen printing machine, you're probably seeing lots of different configurations to choose from. Not only do you have to figure out how many colors and what size area you want to print, you've also got to pick what type of power will drive your press. There are so many options, it can be overwhelming! Let's break it down as simply as possible.
Starting Your Own Screen Printing Business
If you've got the entrepreneurial spirit and a knack for creativity, starting your own custom garment business might be a great fit for you - but it's not all fun and games!
Getting Started With Your First Manual Screen Printing Press
A primer on how to choose a manual press you can count on.
Is an Automatic Screen Printing Press Worth It?
An automatic's return on investment will change the way you work.
Visited a screen printing trade show lately? If you're a manual printer who's just seen an automatic press in action, you might think "there's no way I can keep pushing a squeegee!"
Tips for Having a Great Trade Show Visit
How to make the most out of your trade show experience.
With dozens of exhibitors, a maze of booths and an endless supply of flashy equipment and supplies to browse, a trade show can be a pretty overwhelming place. You've put aside the time to visit, registered to attend and maybe you've even had to travel a long way to get there - you probably don't want to waste your time wandering around aimlessly!
How to Expose Screen Printing Screens Like a Pro
Don't underestimate the importance of pre-press!
With so much attention on applying ink to shirts, it's easy to forget that pre-press is just as important! If your screen hasn't been properly prepared before it goes on the press, even perfect printing technique won't deliver a quality print. There are so many variables that factor into exposing your screens it can be difficult to get a good result, especially if you're unfamiliar with the process.
A Rededication to Customer Care
It's a new year and there are some changes here at Anatol.
We've listened to the feedback from our customers and made the commitment not to offer you anything less than the best customer care you can get in the t-shirt screen printing equipment industry. The entire Anatol team has rededicated itself to going the extra mile to help our customers in whatever way we can. It's not just talk – we've made concrete changes and are prepared to walk the long walk.
How to Reclaim Screens For Textile Printing
Find out everything you need to know about the process of reclaiming a screen.
Discharge Ink: Add It to Your Screen Printing Arsenal?
If you want to print soft designs on dark garments, discharge inks may be your new best friend.
Do you have a favorite t-shirt? You know, the soft cotton one with the soft handed, distressed print on the front? Everyone has one, and there's a pretty good chance it was printed using water based ink. Customers love the soft feel and clean, smooth look of water based prints.
Color Matching Ink for Screen Printing: Get the Best Results!
Remember, it's always easier to add more ink to the mixture than to take it out!
As a screen printer, every order you get is different. The design possibilities in screen printing are virtually limitless; some customers might not have a good idea of what they want their garment to look like, others can be very particular. A customer may request a specific printing process, fabric, ink type or color. You can meet most of these demands relatively easily. However, reproducing a specific color is often easier said than done.
Are You Ready For An Automatic Screen Printing Press?
It might be time to upgrade to an automatic screen printing press.
Is your screen printing shop struggling to meet tight deadlines? Is your manual press keeping you from taking bigger, more complex jobs? If so, it might be time to upgrade to an automatic t-shirt screen printing machine. With a single operator, an automatic press runs at least 3-5 times faster than a manual press, allowing you to tackle larger production runs with more colors. And with automatic presses available with compact footprints, you should be able to find one that fits your existing work space - no need to restructure, no need to move!
7 Ways to Grow Your Screen Printing Business
One of the best ways to promote your screen printing shop is to do what you do best: print!
To survive in the t-shirt screen printing industry - let alone be successful - your business must maintain healthy relationships with its customers as well as its competitors. You could be the most experienced screen printer this side of the sun but nobody will know it without a strong presence and reputation in the field. There are many ways to build and improve your screen printing business. Here are a few suggestions that are sure to increase your visibility in the t-shirt screen printing community and attract new customers...
Screen Printing or Direct to Garment Printing?
Screenprinting can be a lucrative venture for an aspiring entrepreneur.
So you've decided you want to get into the garment printing industry but you're not sure how to get started. No worries, everyone was a beginner at some point! Let's put first things first, like deciding which style of customization you want to pursue. When it comes to printing textiles, two of the most common options are screen printing and direct to garment (DTG) printing.
(TH)INK Before You Screen Print
There's no such thing as any particular screenprinting ink being 'the best'.
One of the most common questions we hear among beginners in the screen printing world is "what ink should I use?" To find the answer, consider another question: "what are you looking to print?". It's not a matter of trying to find the "best" screen printing ink in the industry, but rather finding an ink that will give you the results you need. In order to figure out what ink will best suit your project, it's important to understand the properties and applications of different screen printing inks.


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Mexican Shrimp in Green Bean Sauce
Total Time
Prep 20 mins
Cook 10 mins
Something a little different, adapted from a little Mexican cookbook I have. Quick to make, too (preparation time includes the active cooking time).
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 5 garlic cloves, diced
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil or 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 5 ripe fresh tomatoes, diced (drained canned may be used instead)
- 8 ounces frozen cut green beans (see Note below)
- 1 teaspoon adobo seasoning (con pimiento)
- 1 (1/4 ounce) packet sazon goya, any flavor (optional)
- 1⁄4 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 pinch ground allspice
- 1 pinch ground cinnamon (1/4 tsp. Caribbean jerk seasoning may be used in place of allspice and cinnamon)
- 1 chipotle chile in adobo, diced (add more or less depending on heat tolerance)
- 1 teaspoon adobo sauce (reserved from chipotles)
- 2 cups fish stock (I use the Knorr fish bouillon cubes from the international aisle)
- 1 lb raw shrimp, peeled (thawed, if frozen)
- fresh cilantro (to taste, for garnish)
- 1 lime, cut into 4 wedges
- Heat the oil in a large saute pan or dutch oven over medium-low heat. Add onion and garlic and saute until softened, about 5 minutes. Add the tomatoes and cook for another 2 minutes.
- Add the green beans,spices, chipotle, adobo sauce and fish stock. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to simmer. Simmer for 5 to 10 minutes to allow flavors to meld.
- Add shrimp. Stir and cook for 1 to 2 minutes (shrimp will just start to turn pink but still appear uncooked). Remove pan from heat, cover and allow shrimp to stand until they turn bright pink (this takes approximately 5 minutes).
- Garnish each portion with the cilantro (chopped, if desired). Serve immediately with a lime wedge on the side.
- This is good served with rice and warm corn tortillas to soak up the juice, refried beans and sliced avocado.
- NOTE: if you prefer, jarred nopalitos may be substituted for the green beans.
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I loved this sauce. The chipotle was not overpowering and very subtle. The same with the heat.
Awesome! Use the nopalitos for best results, or if you can find fresh nopales in your area, even better - remove any 'needles' with a paring knife, cut in thin strips and simmer in salted water with a couple of garlic cloves for about 10-15 min. I agree with mama's kitchen about the sauce consistency; I thickened it with a little cornstarch and water, and it came together nicely. Thanks a million for the recipe!
Amazing flavor in this sauce. I cooked the sauce ALOT longer than called for as it was very thin after the addition of the broth. There was ALOT of sauce- More than needed here, but that is ok- it would make a great pasta sauce! I didnt use green beans but DID use jarred Nopalitos. mmmmmm If you get the opportunity to try nopalitos, do! This is a great recipe to use for that! They have a green bean type flavor but are far better with a slight tang. Amazing flavor! This would be a 5 star recipe if the sauce were thicker, the flavors really intensified after it thickened. thanks for a great recipe!


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Good Taste, Bad Taste, Christian Taste: Aesthetics in Religious Lifeby Frank Browning
Many Christians regard artistic taste as a matter of religious indifference, irrelevant to theological conviction. Brown insists otherwise, arguing that in responding to art, we may draw nearer to or pull away from God and other believers.Brown challenges Christian readers to cultivate an aesthetic discipline flexible enough to forge fresh ecumenical artistic styles but rigorous enough to ward off the cliches of kitsch, old and new.
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Through his provocative and influential work, most notably The Culture of Desire and A Queer Geography, Frank Browning has proven himself to be an erudite and intellectual writer with deep insights into the fusion of culture and identity.<P> In his new book The Monk and the Skeptic, Browning examines the intersection of sexuality and religion through the framework of conversations between the author and a gay priest to discuss the nature of secular and spiritual friendship; religious thought on same-sex marriage; the relation of the body to God; the mission of charity enacted by the drag troop Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence; the biblical prohibitions on improper pleasures of the body; and the history of how the church has viewed the body and desire. Browning manages to bring in a host of influences to his discussion: Descartes, Locke, Greek Myth, Christian Myth, Buddhist myth, Harry Potter, St. Thomas Aquinas, as well as modern writers like Jeanette Winterson, John Boswell, and Daniel Mendelsohn. The result is an engaging, timely, and very modern discourse on how the self and sexuality has been interpreted throughout the ages.
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Many of this year's most talked-about films focus on issues of animal welfare, personal health, and environmental awareness.
With awards shows and film festivals heavily dotting spring calendars, 'tis the season to get a sneak peek at the year's newest movies, from art-house to IMAX. This year offers a variety of documentaries and narratives that touch on issues pertinent to veganism, such as the sentience of animals, the complexity of our food system, and the power of a plant-based diet. Here are seven movies worth a second look—and maybe even the price of a bucket of popcorn.
This intriguing conceptual art film by Denis Côté fixates on the complex interplay between captive animals and observers, with a focus on visual confrontation via eye contact. Named for medieval illustrated volumes of exotic beasts, the film is both voyeuristic and cerebral, observing fragmented scenes of majestic lions confined within humbling cages, a rhino being washed by a zookeeper, and cows staring meditatively at the camera from their crowded bovine community. The film's intent remains somewhat ambiguous, but in the words of The Hollywood Reporter, "Côté ostensibly remains outside the debate about whether commercial animal parks are educational facilities or inhumane prisons. But Bestiaire deftly forces us to consider our fascination with other creatures and the cost to them of being placed for our scrutiny in artificial environments."
Not for the faint of heart, this Oscar-nominated Belgian drama follows an aggressive, steroid-inflated cattle farmer as he makes a black-market deal with a Mafioso meat trader for illegal growth hormones, some of which he takes himself. Part-character study, part-crime film, Bullhead is more of a thriller than an anti-meat film, but it nonetheless shines a light on—and raises questions about—the bad business of beef.
Cages of Shame
The recipient of the Humane Society of the United States ACE Documentary Film Grant, Cages of Shame is a powerful look into China's cruel bear-bile farms and a tale of the rescue of 10 of their captives. Tragic but inspiring, the film follows animal activist Jill Robinson and her team as they do whatever it takes to liberate moon bears from a farm where they have lived devastatingly miserable lives in deplorable conditions, all in the name of collecting their bile for supposedly medicinal uses. Shedding light on a lesser-known but horrific industry, this documentary could have the power to raise awareness and abolish the practice of bear-bile farming forever.
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Fifteen projects representing 12 countries have been selected for the Venice Film Festival's Biennale College-Cinema. Each team is composed of a director and producer, and will take part in a 10-day workshop held in Venice in January 2013. Full list below. The Biennale College-Cinema's mission is to promote new filmmaking talent by offering them the opportunity to work closely with well-know professionals toward the goal of producing a low-budget film. As many as three of the 15 projects will receive 150,000 Euro in funding to make three feature-length films, which will be presented at the 70th Venice International Film Festival (August 28 - September 7, 2013). The shortlisted projects hail from Brazil, Egypt, Great Britain, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Philippines, Rwanda, Spain, South Africa, Thailand and the U.S. The 15 projects are: Abu »
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Jes Hathaway is the editor in chief of National Fisherman magazine and NationalFisherman.com.
Written by Jes Hathaway
March 3, 2015
The Maine Fishermen's Forum kicks off this Thursday with a special celebration of its 40th year.
The three-day trade show and conference starts at noon on March 5 at the Rockport Samoset Resort with a Seafood Celebration featuring chefs Barton Seaver (Esquire's Chef of the Year), Dave Pasternack (Esca Restaurant in New York), Brian Hill (Camden's Francine Bistro) and Lynn Archer (Rockland's Brass Compass), all of whom will be sharing their tips for showcasing Maine seafood. The 12-4 event is open to the public. You can RSVP at email@example.com.
On the heels of the free Seafood Celebration the forum will host its annual seafood reception from 5 to 7, which will feature a raw bar; iced tables of lobster, shrimp and crab; and hot dishes to boot. Tickets for the reception are $25 and should be purchased in advance. Get all the details at www.mainefishermensforum.org.
As usual, the conference side of the fishermen's trade show is packed with topics that hit home for Maine's coastal fishermen, including safety training, marketing, groundfish management, green crabs, seaweed, elvers, alewives, climate change and, yes, Lobster Boat Races.
Don't forget to stop by our booth in the State of Maine room to renew your subscription at our show special rate. We'll see you in Rockport!
Written by Jes Hathaway
February 24, 2015
In anticipation of this year's FisherPoets Gathering in Astoria, Ore., Pat Dixon sent me a lovely piece of poetry.
Then he sent me another.
I have a feeling this could go on and on. Moments like these remind me of how much I love my work. If only I were so lucky as to lounge over poetry every day.
I asked Emilie Springer — who will be on stage this year and who contributed her story for our most recent North Pacific Focus quarterly — to share with me her thoughts on the Gathering: "I think sometimes, the fishermen (my dad, my brother, my husband included) roll their eyes at us (the ones doing the writing)," Emilie wrote. "But, I personally think the storytelling is really critical to the culture of the industry. Regardless of whether or not they (the fishermen) want to call themselves a culture. They are."
As I said to Emilie, people should write about what they know. And while it may seem like regular life to some people, nothing worth writing about or getting on stage to talk about, it's just those sort of regular, everyday things that are hardest to write about and come to life in poetry and prose. It's the magic in the mundane.
Yesterday, I read a piece by another inspiring fisherpoet, Tele Aadsen, on being a woman in a fisherman's world. I've read this prose before, or at least a version of it. But a piece of art this carefully knitted together is worth a second look.
Those of you lucky enough to attend the Gathering this year will have just one chance to absorb each of the fishy tales you'll hear during the three-day celebration that starts Friday, Feb. 27. At least until Pat puts together another anthology.
Here's one of the pieces he shared with me. Thanks to all of you for sharing your other craft, whichever it may be, it's the art of fishing.
I slide into this crowded bar
like I'd ease a boat into a slip:
the river is crowded tonight.
ride these aisles like currents.
Tying up to booths,
dropping anchors on barstools,
they open journals like hatch covers:
unsure of how the catch compares.
How many brailers does the rest of the fleet
have tonight?
How many pounds?
(Maybe I'll wait to deliver until morning,
when no one else is watching.)
But morning comes and no one cares.
We drink beer, watch the show,
and listen.
The stories fill the air like jumpers;
words weave to catch them on nets hung deep,
ears cock for the sound of a splash
eyes narrow, looking for hits.
Here comes the next set, and a poet picks up the microphone –
static over the radio, the bar chatter fades,
whispered verses lift us, ride on the back of a swell:
The VHF just said a boat went down with all hands.
Sunrise lit the mountaintops the color of salmon.
…that halibut hook sunk deep into the side of his hand.
The lights of the fleet looked like the stars fell to the ocean.
Pea soup.
She went over when we weren't lookin'…
A slip of a boot on a wet deck
becomes a slip of the tongue,
and this place fills with salt water.
The speaker pauses,
hangs up the mic and walks away without a look.
In a moment all hell will break loose,
and we'll live it again in the telling,
but as the story lands on the dock
solid and hard,
we can sense the slightest change of the engine,
feel the gentlest breeze,
hear our own heart beat
in the distance,
in the waves.
Written by Jes Hathaway
February 19, 2015
It's been a simply brutal winter in New England. This week, a hiker died in New Hampshire's White Mountains after she got caught in one of many recent winter storms and activated a personal locator beacon. The National Guard flew over the area the signal was coming from and then a team of rescuers braved 108-mph winds and frigid temperatures to reach her, only too late.
Of course, the difference between a hiking trip and a fishing trip is that one is for leisure and one is for a living. But another significant difference is that on a properly equipped boat, you have a survival suit.
Very early Monday morning, when the crew of the 80-footer Savannah Ray ran aground, they sent an alert via EPIRB, got in their survival suits and prepared their life raft. The Coast Guard's Kodiak station sent an MH-60 to retrieve them in 45-knot winds with rain and 11-foot seas. The crew was rescued within 90 minutes. (Watch the rescue video below.)
There is so much we can do to improve our own safety, from PLBs to weather forecasting and understanding what certain conditions can mean for a trip to sea. Being able to send out a mayday is no guarantee of rescue. As hard as the Coast Guard works to reach fishermen in peril, they can't always work miracles. But having access to your survival suit and knowing how to get it on and quickly may save your life. And remember that if you can't get it on in a minute while standing on stable, dry land, how long will it take to don it properly while the deck is rolling?
Having a beacon can save your life, as can a careful assessment of the weather. But no matter what happens, chance will always play a role. Don't pile on the chances by being unprepared.
Written by Jes Hathaway
February 12, 2015
Most of the seiners that call Washington's Puget Sound home head to Alaska for spring herring and summer salmon. But what do you do when you can't line up new permits and your boat has a long list of repairs? Well for the owners of the 56-foot seiner Memories out of Gig Harbor, the answer was simple: fish at home.
Freelancer Lael Henterly goes aboard the seiner for a day of fishing in South Sound for fall chums in an At-Sea feature on page 22 of our March issue. It may not be Alaska, but a dark-to-dark day with 4,700 pounds of salmon is still a good day fishing.
Kendall Henry, a Puget Sound Commercial Salmon Fishery Manager with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, sent in some further notes on the local observer program:
"The reason the observers are out there is that chinook and coho have been designated by the WDFW commission as priority species for recreational fishermen in Puget Sound. Recreational priority combined with concerns over ESA listed stocks has meant that we have to require the commercial seine fleet to release chinook and coho in many of their fisheries and since these species are no longer appearing on fish tickets, we need observers to know how many fish they are encountering. In Puget Sound we are not out there with some sort of enforcement agenda to estimate compliance with the rules. Our observers are out there to count fish, and that is it."
One note of correction is that the observer's name in the story was Brandon Phinney, not Phinnell.
Written by Jes Hathaway
February 5, 2015
Yesterday a group of environmental advocates testified before a Maine legislative policy committee in support of a bill to ban the use of synthetic microbeads. The tiny beads, no larger than a third of a millimeter in diameter, are typically found in facial scrubs, body washes and even toothpaste. They bypass wastewater treatment plants that are not designed to filter them and wind up in our waterways, where they are absorbed or eaten by all manner of marine creatures.
Maine is one of 20 states that will introduce some prohibition on microbeads this year. One of the biggest concerns is the unwitting human ingestion of microplastics that are present in the shellfish we eat.
But microbeads are only a small, ahem, part of the problem. Plastic particles, the majority of which are called nurdles, which are about 5 millimeters in diameter, are the largest source of plastic water pollution contributing to massive swaths of floating debris in the oceans, including the Great Pacific garbage patch.
The ultimate quandary is how to rid our waters of these polymers, which do not degrade like organic substances. As plastic disintegrates in the water, it merely breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces that concentrate in the upper water column. The simplest solution is to reduce our use of plastics and dispose of them properly.
If you're interested in avoiding products that contain microbeads before legislation can weed them out, visit beatthemicrobead.org to download an app that will keep you updated as you shop.
Written by Jes Hathaway
January 27, 2015
We are hunkered down here in Maine. You may have heard about Juno, this little blizzard we're having. Though our downtown office is closed to keep our staff off the roads, we are plugging away from our home offices. Like the fishermen we so admire, our work rarely stops because the weather gets a little hinky. The significant difference being that we're not out in it.
It was just about two years ago that the last big winter storm, Nemo, hit the Northeast and the Maritimes. I remember because I was in the Nova Scotia fishing town of Yarmouth. Reports from home were of more than 2 feet of snow, and my coworker and I thought we'd never make it to Halifax in time to catch our flight back to Maine the next day.
In a moment of great daring and stupidity, we decided to brave the drive to Halifax a night early, almost 200 miles on a two-lane undivided and unlit road (now called the Fishermen's Memorial Highway), as the storm was churning away from the coast, and hole up there the night before our flight. The drive was long and hairy. Every time we stopped for coffee or gas, the locals looked at us like we had three heads when we reported that we were going to keep driving. When Canadians think the storm is too rough to go on, it's probably wise to listen to them.
But we made it to Halifax many hours later, had a lovely warm supper by a fireplace, and got on our flight the next day. Smooth sailing all the way home, where they had gotten 32 inches of powder.
Being out in bad weather reminds me how easy I have it most days, even driving through a blizzard, at least I was on solid ground that may have been passed over by a plow truck recently enough for the tires to grab the road.
Just two days after we left Yarmouth, the five-man crew of the Nova Scotia lobster boat Miss Ally was lost to rough seas, most likely capsized by a rogue wave.
Fishing is a risky business as it is. I hope all of our fleets are safe in port or far enough off the coast to endure this storm in relative calm.
Written by Jes Hathaway
January 20, 2015
Late last week, the menhaden industry learned that something good can come from having special interest groups get involved in the management of your fishery.
In response to a wave of layoffs and outcry from the menhaden fleet when their quota was slashed by 20 percent in 2012, the managers responded by assigning a technical team to find as many new sources of data on the fishery as they possibly could and to assess the new model.
(I call that going above and beyond. But the truth is, any major fishery should have the resources to do exactly what the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission did in this case, especially when a new model shows a drastically different assessment of the fishery than prior data indicated.)
In 2012, managers bowed to pressure by a suite of NGOs who claim the fishery is overfished. The model used to develop the 2012 assessment has since been determined to be deeply flawed. That determination was made by a team of fishery scientists whose objective is to get the science right and leave behind the politics. The new data covers a wider geographical range, as well as a deeper historical scope.
Despite what some of the opposition would have us believe, the result of the new benchmark assessment is not a backslide to the old days of so-called mismanagement. Rather, it's a whole new world for the menhaden fishery with new sources of data in abundance.
And yet still we are not tapping the valuable resource of spotter pilots who search for schools of menhaden from the air to direct purse seine skippers toward their prey.
Read more about the menhaden fishery's eyes in the sky in our upcoming March issue.
Written by Jes Hathaway
January 15, 2015
Reality TV series have taken over the race for fish. It seems every time you turn around, there's another camera crew rushing off to the fishing grounds, wrapping their tentacles around the next muscle fishery to capture the action and drama that comes with commercial fishing.
The fact is, they're not wrong. Compared to the sedentary lifestyles of most Americans, the kind of work fishermen do is legitimately exciting. And to think, most of us get to watch all the action from the comfort of our own overstuffed couches.
When you go to fishing towns where these shows are based (or read the blogs about them), the local people tend to roll their eyes a bit about the choice of the stars, how unrealistic the so-called reality show is, how commercial it's gotten or is bound to be. But behind that eye roll, there's a glimmer. They're a little puffed up to have some inside knowledge of a national show.
We all tend to get caught up in our own little worlds. People think as a magazine editor that I write all day long. I do a good bit of writing, but what I do most is generate and traffic ideas for stories, staying in contact with the people who write them, editing them as they come in, finding photos and other art to accompany them. And that's just for the magazine. I do the same for our website, the newsletter we send out twice a week, the quarterly we send out to the West Coast and Alaska, our conference programs and any other industry-related shows and conferences I'd like to attend in my, uh, spare time.
You get the idea. As busy as I am and as exciting as I find my work, I'm doubtful it would make a decent reality show. But what you do is genuinely thrilling, and it's unlike anything else. I know it can be repetitive. And for many of you the lifestyle is all you've ever known. All your parents and grandparents knew. It's what many of your friends do.
But there's no denying that it's wild. And most of America simply has no idea — until they see it come across the screen. The death-defying action of the American fishboys!
Sure, I'd like to see more interesting and thoughtful shows about the nation's commercial fisheries. But we all know what makes for popular TV, and it's not thoughtfulness. But what does happen when there's yet another fishing reality show is that a small portion of those viewers will have their eyes opened to what it all really means. Those will be the people who will watch the documentaries about commercial fishing. Those are the people who might happen upon your direct-marketing page on Facebook. Those are the people who will ask where their fish comes from the next time they walk up to the fish counter. And I would guess some of them might even try fish from your waters for the first time after watching the show.
It's easy to imagine that being in the spotlight exposes all the wrong things. But ultimately, most people don't remember all of the gory details. What they remember is that you fish for a living, and they want to eat what you catch.
Just look at Sig Hansen. He was just another Norwegian-Alaskan crab captain. Sure he may have stepped in it a little with his Russian crab deal. But just look at him now on Celebrity Apprentice! The general public doesn't remember the bad stuff unless it's really, really bad and consistently so.
Love him or otherwise, Sig represents king crab. And what that means is that every time his face is on TV, someone who might not have thought of it is going to go out and buy some king crab. That may not be the marketing scheme of your dreams. But the reality is it gets people talking about and buying American-caught fish. And that is nothing to roll your eyes at.
Written by Jes Hathaway
January 8, 2015
I will never forget talking to the late (and great) Larry Simns about Chesapeake Bay fisheries. Larry, an NF Highliner and longtime president of the Maryland Watermen's Association, was one of the first old-timers to talk to me in detail about the health of the estuaries and bays being critical to the future of many fisheries. As Larry explained it, small-scale fishermen were the original environmentalists.
report released this week acknowledges that the bay's health is improving, but says that farmland and urban runoff are still hampering restoration efforts. Larry was a leader in the mission to clean up the bay. He knew the future of bay and its harvesters depended on water pure enough to breed temperamental oysters and blue crabs.
And for that reason, I am sure Mr. Simns would be proud of the next generation of commercial fishermen taking to the bay to fulfill a dream of independence on and off the water. Writer and photographer Jay Fleming's feature story in our February issue highlights the working lives of Annapolis-based crab fishermen Nick Crook (skipper/owner), 27, and his deckboss Ben Byers, 24.
These young upstarts leave the dock at the end of a long fishing day and hop in a truck to carry their product directly to restaurants and consumers. In their spare time, they're marketing and making connections with new retail outlets.
Maybe the extra-long hours and legwork is what makes it a young man's game. But whatever it is, these baymen are carrying on a long tradition of planting the seeds for the next generation, just as Larry and his contemporaries did for them.
Written by Jes Hathaway
December 23, 2014
This Christmas season has been particularly hectic in my house with a new baby, being back in the office full time starting the first of the month (whose idea was it to start back to work in December?) and a very excited almost-5-year-old whose enthusiasm for the season I am trying to foster and not take for granted.
This time of year is always busy, and it can be so easy to get caught up in the lists and gloss over what's really important. This morning I read a story that put it all into perspective for me once again.
Shrimper Ryan Barcot was burned over 75 percent of his body when the boat he was working on exploded in flames near Grand Isle, La., on Dec. 1. As you can see from the video, the crew was lucky to be within sight of an offshore oil supply vessel that witnessed the fire and called for help.
The open ocean can be a lonely place. When a layperson watches footage like this, they can see why fishing is so dangerous. The shrimp boat appears to be isolated, surrounded by miles of water. But in the scope of ocean fishing, the fact that they were visible by another boat means that they were far closer to help than many fishermen are in their daily work.
A rescue at sea is inherently miraculous. In Barcot's case, proximity to another vessel would not have been enough to save him just a few hours later. For the next two days, the area was covered in a dense fog. Chris Hanks, the oil rig foreman who witnessed the fire and alerted the Coast Guard, told the Times-Picayune: ""If it would have happened the next day, the boat would have burned up. I would have never seen the smoke."
As I was preparing to post this blog, I got an email from a friend of a Montauk, N.Y., fisherman who was injured in an ATV accident on Sunday. He's suffering from a traumatic brain injury (despite reportedly wearing a helmet), and his friends are reaching out to raise money. Henry Sjoman is only 24, but he has been fishing for almost a decade, longlining for tilefish on the Kimberly for the last five years.
My thoughts are with the friends and family of these two fishermen as they navigate a difficult holiday season. You can also make a donation to Barcot's recovery via GoFundMe.
Every fall, as the days get colder and shorter, I find myself giving thanks for my friends and family, for this life with which I have been graced and, once we have passed the solstice, for the slow return to longer, warmer sunnier days.
The planet keeps spinning, and we are just here for the ride. Don't take too many moments for granted without pausing to be grateful. Forget a few of the things you're "supposed" to do, and instead take a few beats to give someone you love a sincere thank you.
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to all of you.
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