However, over the last 30 years they have stopped fishing and switched to more profitable professions.
"My sense is that if the Democrats stopped fishing there, it is because there are no fish".
He has stopped fishing, because it "just got boring -- if you like fish, go to the fish market".
Even when the group stopped fishing and met at a picnic grove for lunch, Madeline Nasta, 56, of Oakdale didn't want to leave the river.
But two of his upriver neighbors, Jim and Claude Duket, who never stopped fishing, are anticipating it more mournfully, certain that the dredging will kick up contaminants and ruin the best fishing in these parts in decades.
During the war British trawlers continued to plough the waves of the eastern Atlantic, between Britain and Iceland, but more or less stopped fishing in the North Sea, which was nearer Germany and thus much riskier.
Peter Noel, vice president of the Northeast Crabbers Association, said Shippagan's fishermen had voluntarily stopped fishing for four months in 1989, worked out their own quota system and invested $1.5 million in research to help them learn how to replenish crab stocks.
When American fleets stopped fishing on dolphins, they needed another way to find schools of tuna.
Even if we stopped fishing, recovery is not ensured: the larvae of many commercially important fish rely on coral reefs for shelter during critical stages of development.
