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Sep 11, 2016
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Foreign trawlers go by now with long seeing eyes
Taking all where we seldom take any
Taking all where we seldom take any
Massive trawlers and factory ships use sonar (long seeing eyes) to find ever diminishing schools. They can haul in tons of fish, while the small scale fishermen lack the technology or the range to compete with them.
Sep 11, 2016
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She's a kindly cape islander, old but still sound
But so lost in the long liners shadow
Make and Break and make do, but the fish are so few
That she won't be replaced should she founder
But so lost in the long liners shadow
Make and Break and make do, but the fish are so few
That she won't be replaced should she founder
The Cape Islander is the boat -- a common craft used by generations of fishermen off the East Coast. Today she is dwarfed by the trawlers and factory ships. And with the economics of small scale fisherman there would be no replacing the boat if she were lost.
Sep 11, 2016
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How still lies the bay, in the light western airs
Which blow from the crimson horizon
Once more we tack home, with a dry empty hole
Saving gas with the breezes so fair
Which blow from the crimson horizon
Once more we tack home, with a dry empty hole
Saving gas with the breezes so fair
A calm evening with mild breezes pushing from the west (to the sea). This should be a dry empty "hold", which represents the poor to non-existent catch the fishermen are bringing home.