Commercial fishing, which tops the list of the world's most
dangerous occupations, has long been a magnet for writers and
readers. The subject addresses a hunger of the spirit - for
adventure, for conquest, for solitude and for communion with the
cosmos. "Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust
healthy soul in him," Melville asks, "at some time or other crazy
to go to sea?" Charles "Tiggie" Peluso and Sandy Macfarlane offer a
convincing answer. Tiggie: The Lure and Lore of Commercial Fishing
in New England begins more than 30 years ago in a remote cove on
Cape Cod's Pleasant Bay, Macfarlane, a young marine biologist newly
deputized by the Orleans shellfish warden, gathers up her courage
to confront one of the Cape's crustiest, crankiest commercial
fishermen, a local legend named Tiggie Peluso. It's more than a
contest between youth and age, or rules and reason, or book
knowledge and hard-earned practical experience. It's a clash of two
strong wills and two warring cultures - a bucolic, rustic Cape Cod
that is in the process of changing beyond recognition, and an
industry that is losing its past under a tsunami of foreign
competition, legalisms and new technology. In Tiggie we hear both
their voices. Tiggie's personal stories about fishing in the 40's,
50's, and 60's are at once poignant, matter-of-fact and haunting in
his appreciation of the beauty around him, and reverence for all
life, especially in the sea. We meet his crew mates and friends,
learn about their idiosyncrasies and their humanness, their
struggles to make ends meet, their financial binges in good times.
We come to understand their disdain for those who try to regulate
what they do, their less-than-perfectrelationships with women and,
above all, their love of the life they have chosen.
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