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This book includes personal stories from rumrunning in the 1920s, and the Golden Age of Sporfishing from the early 1950s through the 1970's when swordfish, giant bluefin tuna, white marlin were plentiful. A third section of the book addresses how overfishing with longlines, driftnets, and foreign factory trawlers resulted in severe declines in pelagic game fish stocks, and how regulations put in place since 1980 have impacted both the fisheries and the lives of modern fishermen. The book is told as an oral history in the words of eight Montauk charter boat captains who fished the Montauk as well as the east coast from Bimini to Cape Cod. The author first met these captains as a young boy fishing with his father in the early 1950s and developed friendships with each of them as he grew older and made Montauk his hometown.
About the Author: Bill Akin began fishing in Montauk in 1950 with his father. Over the following decades, he fished the Atlantic coast from St. Thomas, V.I. to St Johns, Newfoundland, and in the Pacific out of Costa Rica and Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
He was on the Board of Directors of Wild Oceans, a marine fish conservation organization, from 1995 to 2012. Bill lives year-round in Montauk where he was President of the local environmental organization, Concerned Citizens of Montauk, for ten years and founded the classical concert series Music For Montauk in 1980. Joe Gaviola began fishing with his father in Montauk in the late 1960s and later worked as a local charter boat mate. In subsequent years he won several sportfishing tournaments but now fishes for fun and science.

Joe is a twenty-year member of the Montauk Lighthouse Committee and is the current Keeper of the Montauk Lighthouse where he resides. Formerly a local Montauk business owner and Chairman of Suffolk County National Bank, Joe is now a financial adviser with Merrill Lynch.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781737031406
  • Publisher: Bookbaby
  • Publisher Imprint: Bookbaby
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 152
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Weight: 317 gr
  • ISBN-10: 173703140X
  • Publisher Date: 10 Sep 2021
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Interviews with Eight Legendary Captains
  • Width: 152 mm


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