An oral history project designed to document the experience of Portuguese-speaking fishermen has obtained funding from NOAA's Preserve America Initiative and is ready to get under way this week.
“We have compiled a list of more than 20 fishermen we are interested in speaking with,” said Dr. Gloria de Sa, a professor of sociology at UMass Dartmouth and faculty director of the Ferreira-Mendes archives there. “We hope that around 15 of them will agree to be interviewed.”
The study is being coordinated by de Sa and Dr. Patricia Pinto da Silva, a social scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Northeast Fisheries Science Center in Woods Hole.
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