Massachusetts: Immigration Raids Have Spread Anxiety for Some in New Bedford Fishing Industry
Hector Grave has worked in the seafood business since he came to this historic fishing city from a small town in Guatemala in the late 1990s.
He worked at fish houses, cutting scallops and shrimp, cleaning fish that came in from nearby waters. Later, a friend introduced him to net making, and he felt it was like solving a puzzle.
He found a job making fishing nets for local companies, typically stitching and braiding the nets together and adding floats, and then founded his own...
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