[SEMCO] CCMNH Weir Fishing on Cape Cod

[The Gilligans]

The Friends of the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
Presents
Weir Fishing on Cape Cod: a present-day perspective of Cape Cod's
historic fishing industry.
By photographer and fisherwoman Shareen Davis
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 1:30
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
869 Rte 6A, Brewster, MA 02631
508-896-3867 x 133    www.ccmnh.org
 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 17, 2009
Contact: Gayle Kenerson 508-385-2192 or gck1 at comcast.net 
 
Friends of CCMNH monthly meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 10, 2009
at 1:00pm, followed by the program, 
Weir Fishing on Cape Cod: a present-day perspective of Cape Cod's
historic fishing industry. 
With photographer and fisherwoman Shareen Davis
at 1:30.  
Friends members/free, guests/$3
 
In Nantucket Sound, weir fishing became an important industry in the
1800s.  In its heyday fish weirs lined the inshore waters of the Sound
from Chatham westward harvesting seasonal migratory fish. Though little
has changed in the practice of present day weir fishing , much  has
changed in  industry itself . Davis will speak about the history and
dynamics of Cape Cod's existing weir fishing and the challenges it faces
in the modern day fishing industry
 
Davis is a Chatham native with generational ties to the town's fishing
industry. She is co-owner of the weir fishing business Monomoy Trap
Company. She is also a noted freelance photographer who produces diverse
photojournalism for local and national publications and dynamic
commercial imagery for companies and artists. She showed her work in the
Museum's Marshview room last fall .
 
Attached is a picture of Ms. Davis, taken by photographer Candace
Cochrane.
 
 
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