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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Choptank in Cambridge is frozen over also.
ReplyDeleteBeen 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.
ReplyDeleteOMG Global Warming like Obama says...I am so glad he will always stay as KING here...no more elections...
ReplyDeleteWhen 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.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was working the water, the Nanticoke froze over every year after Christmas. Some time in the middle of Feb. it would thaw.
ReplyDelete555 - OMG global warming. Blame Obama!
ReplyDeleteOMG! You mean climate was the same back then? No "change?"
ReplyDeleteI thought his highness ran on a "change" platform!
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
ReplyDeleteHow come the name of everything has to be changed? I'm sticking with arctic blast.
ReplyDeleteI can see seafood prices going sky high.
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