ATLANTIC HARVEST

This portfolio features select photographs from Jay Fleming’s forthcoming book Atlantic Harvest. The photography, along with narrative in Atlantic Harvest will provide the reader with a visual journey through the supply chains of the most iconic and some of the lesser known seafoods harvested commercially in the from the coastal waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Photographs from the east coast of the United States and the Canadian maritimes of workboats hauling gear, workers in processing plants packing seafood and portraits of the individuals who make commercial fishing their livelihood will provide an all encompassing vignette of the seafoods that are commonly consumed.

Jay’s curiosity about commercial fishing and the strong urge to bring awareness and appreciation to domestic seafood motivated his first shoot on a Chesapeake Bay skipjack in 2011. Five years later, he published his first book Working the Water, a 280-page visual narrative of commercial fisheries in the Chesapeake Bay. Jay hopes that Atlantic Harvest will expand his scope of work and create a historically important documentation of the rapidly changing seafood industry.

After eight years of working part time on Atlantic Harvest - this book is still a work in progress. Jay has been on trips up and down the Atlantic coast - from Florida on a trawler dragging for cannonball jellyfish up north to the Bay of Fundy on a Canadian lobster boat. Jay will continue to actively look for opportunities to get on the water to document the harvest of both the lesser known and iconic fisheries. The expected publication date of this book is the fall of 2028. Stay tuned to Jay’s social media pages (linked below) for frequent updates and new work.