at it now, especially when you only work for six months and you ve got to find another job. the beach is full up now. you can t get on here for boats. fewer people are going oystering and theyjust leave them on the beach and hope they don t rot out. after christmas, when brexit came in, they changed the rules. so that affected us, stopped us fishing for two months. this is the first year i haven t been out in january or february. yeah, basically stopped completely.
sometimes, he wants to go one way, sometimes i want to go the other way. some people can t get a living out of it now, especially when you only work for six months and you ve got to find another job. beach is full up now, you can t get up on here for boats. fewer people are going oystering, and theyjust leave them on the beach, and hope they don t rot out. after christmas, when brexit came in, they changed the rules, so that affected us, it stopped us fishing for two months. this is the first year i haven t
oysters, one of our good oysters. that will be all right for london. £3, £2 or £3 for an oyster like that. cheap. too cheap. it s a good life but it is not easy. 0therjobs are a lot easier than oystering, you are working nonstop for six hours. no dredges over the side until nine o clock. and all dredges must be in by three o clock. six hours is long when you have been pulling dredges. for me, anyhow. a lot of oystermen sufferfrom bad backs. pulling and bending over. it soon loses its romantic bit. we get some good days and some bad days, you know.
otherjobs are a lot easier than oystering, you are working nonstop for six hours. no dredges over the side until nine o clock. and all dredges must be in by three o clock. six hours is long when you have been pulling dredges. for me, anyhow. a lot of oystermen sufferfrom bad backs. pulling and bending over. it soon loses its romantic bit. we get some good days and some bad days, you know. if you can stick the bad days, the good days are a bonus. lots of people can t stand the bad days. this is one of our queens. queen scallops. mainly always go to france, you know. which is a shame, really, because they are nice to eat. but that s the problem french and europeans
Heroes on the half shell: New Haven filmmaker at work on oystering documentary
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New Haven filmmaker Steve HammPhoto by Dan Hamm / Contributed
As someone with a strong interest in environmentalism, Steve Hamm is fascinated by oysters and the whole business of oystering.
Hamm, 69, of New Haven, is a documentary filmmaker who first became drawn to Connecticut’s oystering industry while making a film about Connecticut’s Mill River. During that project, Hamm interviewed Norwalk-based oyster farmer Norm Bloom and watched crews at work.
“It was just fascinating,” Hamm said. “I loved the sea and I loved the ships.”
He also loved the role that oysters play in preserving the environmental health of the water they live in. The bivalves effectively filter the water, consuming algae, and removing excess nitrogen and carbon dioxide.