Crabbers Fight Over Right to Fish Space Coast
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [USA TODAY] Jim Waymer - May 18, 2015
OAK HILL, Fla. – George Sweetman must follow the crabs.
This year, they lure him to the shallows surrounding NASA's Kennedy Space Center, where the beginnings of a blue crab revival crawl inside his steel traps.
But a plan to phase out his trade from these remote waters could claw back a recent turnaround in the fortunes of Sweetman and others who fish the Mosquito Lagoon — the northernmost section of the Indian River Lagoon — killing off their unique heritage.
"Why now are we being thrown out?" asks Sweetman, 69, who's fished here 20 years. "I don't see we're a ...
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