In late October, three men from the BBC and one Cornwall fisherman checked into the rooms above the Crow's Nest: James Smith, Luke Pavey, and Monty Halls, producer, camera man and explorer-television personality, along with Nigel Legge, a Cornwall lobsterman who still makes traditional lobster pots out of willow branches.
The BBC men are working on a six-part series on the state of fishing in England — dire — and had heard about a small, innovative program in Gloucester that might be a rare bonus for the small family fisherman.
Cape Ann Fresh Catch, a community supported fishery, modeled on the method of paying a farmer in advance for a season of crops, was what the BBC guys came to understand and film.
They interviewed Niaz Dorry of the North Atlantic Marine Alliance and met the people of Cape Ann Fresh Catch. They shot footage in Gloucester, and took the camera out on one of our local boats, following a catch from net to distribution site.
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