Seafood: Independence, Industry, and Wild Food

Fishing or foraging for shellfish is still recreation for many people. A fisherman with a string of trout may expect to have the fish fried up for breakfast or supper, but sport fishing lacks the life-and-death importance it has for commercial fishermen. Commercial and sport fishermen are often at odds, and many people still hold the attitude that fishing is a lazy man’s activity. It is an old idea. Hunting and fishing were pastimes of the gentry in old England, as they were in colonial America as well.