Some SF Fishers Suffer Amid Efforts to Save Whales, Salmon
It’s been a tough and divisive time of late for commercial fishers on San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf, where their ability to make a living using some traditional methods is under pressure from wildlife regulators and controversy simmers over emerging technology aimed at preventing whale entanglements in lines attached to pots set to trap Dungeness crabs.
John Mellor, for one, projected a sense of gloom in the summer sun recently as he stood near his boat, the High Hopes, docked with other craft at a nearly silent Pier 45...
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