The View From Lazy Points

In this selection from The View from Lazy Point, Carl Safina is talking about a young fisherman who is taking horseshoe crabs from the bay during breeding season. Safina is trying to convince the man that what he’s doing isn’t a good idea, while the bayman is trying to explain to him that it’s his living and he’s carrying out a family tradition that his father did before him. Safina expounds upon this by explaining and giving examples about how times have changed and collecting and gathering a handful of crabs is much different from filling a truck bed to commercially sell them. It’s impossible to have a job as a smalltown fisherman in today’s industry-run world where people expect their orders and food in bulk and it becomes difficult to produce