I felt like going down to where the fishing boats tie up, so I drove to Galilee. It was a warm morning for November, and breezy. Out in Block Island Sound, I saw a dragger coming back from a trip. It was called the Kelsi and Morgan. It came through the breachway to the state’s commercial fishing docks, home to about 50 big trawlers and dozens of lobster boats.
As it pulled up, I went to meet it, but then saw an unlikely sight. I’d assumed fishing was a man’s industry, especially the heavy work. But there was a woman in shiny overalls — oilers — and rubber boots. She was shoveling silver herring out of a huge wharf tub into a 250-pound barrel. She filled it, and started another.
I asked if we might chat.
She gave her name as Andrea Incollingo. She is owner of The Bait Company, which sells to lobstermen. The herring were part of a 40,000-pound shipment that just arrived from Maine on an 18-wheeler. They were caught on Georges Bank by trawlers from Gloucester.
Read the complete story at The Providence Journal.