Mark Kitching, a waterman on Smith Island, dons a set of waders, the unofficial uniform of watermen. The rubber material provides ideal protection for the wet and dirty working conditions.
(Photos by Carlin Stiehl/Chesapeake Bay Program)
Its so cool to see how small that baby blue crab was.
Work begins around 4:00 am.
They also harvest a crab then dump it back into the sea.
Nice photos, Mr. Stiehl,
But you don't say anything about the Watermen's unwillingnmess to work with environmentalists against polluters. The lack of partnership is abysmal.
I found out about it by going to a Maryland Senate Finance Committee hearing last February on closing the coal-fired power plants. Not a single waterman, hunter, angler, sport fisherman, boater, marina owner or anyone else who makes their livelihood on the Chesapeake Bay was there to testify in favor of closing down the biggest source of deadly heavy metals, including mercury, in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. So, I can not feel too sorry for people who blame environmentalists, instead of polluters, even those of us who drive cars and dump paint into the sewer systems around our neighborhoods. When I spoke to several of watermen visiting Annapolis on their lobby night and gave them the flyer that Sierra Club organizers gave to me so I could lobby my delegates about the closure bill, none of them had heard of it. So, why are their representatives keeping them dumb and dumber?
And, why aren't the environmentalist urging or even requesting their presence at such an important meeting? For that matter, why wasn't the Marine Trade Association of Maryland at that meeting? Why are the environmentalists intent on tackling these problems on their own? Why weren't the Severn River and Magothy River Associations, who represent residents who live on the tributaries and boat and fish and used to swim the Bay, there at that meeting to voice their opinion about stopping the big polluters<
Capitalism has done a great job of dividing people. That's why. This is a do-it-yourself country and we're all brainwashed into thinking we don't need friends and we don't need partnership. We are all enemies fighting for the few crumbs left on the plate. In other words, we are toast! We are burnt toast! Do you get what I'm saying?
We all need to get what Ben Franklin said over 200 years ago, "Either we all hang together, or, most surely, we will all hang separately." You need to do your story of the failing of the watermen as an example of the failing of all communities in this nation. We are on a sinking ship, unless someone raises our consciousness up above the daily shit level we are used to attaining. Thank you for listening to my point of view. I am an activist for the Chesapeake Bay and I have had to find all this out by digging. I say uncovering this issue could get you a Pulitzer, if you're interested.
Very well done
These pictures are unbelievably beautiful. The Chesapeake Bay Program was fortunate to have this intern, talented in photography and writing as well.
Thank you!
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Its so cool to see how small that baby blue crab was.
Work begins around 4:00 am.
They also harvest a crab then dump it back into the sea.
Nice photos, Mr. Stiehl,
But you don't say anything about the Watermen's unwillingnmess to work with environmentalists against polluters. The lack of partnership is abysmal.
I found out about it by going to a Maryland Senate Finance Committee hearing last February on closing the coal-fired power plants. Not a single waterman, hunter, angler, sport fisherman, boater, marina owner or anyone else who makes their livelihood on the Chesapeake Bay was there to testify in favor of closing down the biggest source of deadly heavy metals, including mercury, in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. So, I can not feel too sorry for people who blame environmentalists, instead of polluters, even those of us who drive cars and dump paint into the sewer systems around our neighborhoods. When I spoke to several of watermen visiting Annapolis on their lobby night and gave them the flyer that Sierra Club organizers gave to me so I could lobby my delegates about the closure bill, none of them had heard of it. So, why are their representatives keeping them dumb and dumber?
And, why aren't the environmentalist urging or even requesting their presence at such an important meeting? For that matter, why wasn't the Marine Trade Association of Maryland at that meeting? Why are the environmentalists intent on tackling these problems on their own? Why weren't the Severn River and Magothy River Associations, who represent residents who live on the tributaries and boat and fish and used to swim the Bay, there at that meeting to voice their opinion about stopping the big polluters<
Capitalism has done a great job of dividing people. That's why. This is a do-it-yourself country and we're all brainwashed into thinking we don't need friends and we don't need partnership. We are all enemies fighting for the few crumbs left on the plate. In other words, we are toast! We are burnt toast! Do you get what I'm saying?
We all need to get what Ben Franklin said over 200 years ago, "Either we all hang together, or, most surely, we will all hang separately." You need to do your story of the failing of the watermen as an example of the failing of all communities in this nation. We are on a sinking ship, unless someone raises our consciousness up above the daily shit level we are used to attaining. Thank you for listening to my point of view. I am an activist for the Chesapeake Bay and I have had to find all this out by digging. I say uncovering this issue could get you a Pulitzer, if you're interested.
Very well done
These pictures are unbelievably beautiful. The Chesapeake Bay Program was fortunate to have this intern, talented in photography and writing as well.
Thank you!
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