With Capt. Paul Cohan at the helm, the F/V Sasquatch steamed out of port just after dawn into a grey sea, whipped by invisible furies into a foamy froth, on something of a fool’s errand.
"Yup, that’s what it was," said Cohan, a fierce critic of the regulators and their schemes to conserve and revitalize the wild stocks of groundfish that brought European boats across the ocean in the 15th century, and created a fishery before there was America.
The foolish aspect of the errand Saturday was the collapsed price that awaited the Sasquatch and the 40 or so other boats in the fleet that, like Cohan’s, had just five days earlier been unshackled by the regulators.
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