During a Hoopers Island workshop in the fall of 2018 the pound netting crew of Richland Seafood was short a hand, so I put down my camera and grabbed a pair of gloves. Working with the watermen for this brief stint helped me understand how much work goes into making fresh seafood accessible to the public. The work on this trip - pulling in the net, culling through the catch and tagging fish - represents the relatively easy parts of a pound netters job. The most arduous part of their job comes when they are cutting the poles for the nets, setting the poles in the bottom, dipping the nets in antifouling paint and cleaning the nets.

Thanks to my longtime workshop student Lenny Burton for the photographs - they were worth the 2.5 year wait!