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I LANSTON TYPE COMPANY I GERALD GIAMPA I
¶ YOU WERE SUPPOSED to refer to lonely men with their oyster rakes drawing their booty from the muddy river bottom as oyster dory people in order to be politically correct.
They will never take me alive!
To be perfectly accurate I have taken pictures of these workers since 1994 and have yet to see a woman working in a dory. So for me they are oyster dorymen.
In contrast to the massive oceandraggers on the Grand Banks destroying the bottom of the ocean floors. Then wondering where the cod went.
Oyster men are very ecologically tuned and protect their industry. They clean rivers damaged by man and nurse beds back to thriving communities of oysters.
The most active cultivator of the river bottom is a man they call Super Dennis. The Hillsborough River is a national treasure and the particular area where this photo was shot is the beginning of the marshes with an immense population of wild iris bordering the river edge.
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¶ MY PHOTOGRAPHY contained the most extensive photo essay of the Prince Edward Island Oyster Dorymen. All the photos were lost in the tidal surge except this photo, a single survivor.
The fisherman wore a tremendous sense of humour. Characters one would only expect to find in a Herman Melville book.