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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Arctic Blast Takes Its Toll On Waterman, Boats Frozen In Port

KENT ISLAND, Md. - Days of below zero temperatures – an “arctic blast” or “Polar Vortex” as meteorologists call it – are taking a toll on Maryland waterman whose boats are stuck in port.

Moochie Gilmer has been a waterman for 40 years.

He's made a career of fishing, crabbing and going for oysters. Winter isn't the offseason for watermen. They are dredging and diving for oysters now and also netting rock fish in the bay .

“We've been unable to work for the last week or so in the Eastern Bay or the Chester River,” Gilmer said.
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10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Choptank in Cambridge is frozen over also.

Anonymous said...

Been happening for decades…no different than a drought in the summer for farmers. In the 70's when Tangier Sound froze solid, oysterman drove trucks out on it and tonged from the truck bed.

Hail to King Obama said...

OMG Global Warming like Obama says...I am so glad he will always stay as KING here...no more elections...

Anonymous said...

When I was a young man working the trade early fifties in Crisfield, Md. we busted our buns from Oct. to late Nov. We knew there would be little work then to the beginning of crab season. The entire bay and rivers would freeze for days. Standard operating procedures and you saved for those times.

Anonymous said...

When I was working the water, the Nanticoke froze over every year after Christmas. Some time in the middle of Feb. it would thaw.

Anonymous said...

555 - OMG global warming. Blame Obama!

Anonymous said...

OMG! You mean climate was the same back then? No "change?"
I thought his highness ran on a "change" platform!

Anonymous said...

boy, the more you guys try to speak on the climate change issue, the more I lose respect for the education system on the eastern shore

Anonymous said...

How come the name of everything has to be changed? I'm sticking with arctic blast.

Anonymous said...

I can see seafood prices going sky high.