Markham Starr
Markham Starr is the author of Against the Tide: The Commercial Fishermen of Point Judith (Flat Hammock Press), and his photographs have appeared in LensWork. He lives in North Stonington, Connecticut.
Last Catch
The people pictured on these pages are some of the last floating-trap fishermen in Rhode Island. Floating traps — a system of large nets anchored to the ocean floor near the shore — date back to pre-Roman times and have been used in North America since the arrival of the Europeans. Fish swimming along the shoreline get funneled by the nets into a trap at one end, and the fishermen arrive each morning to scoop them out.
December 2009
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