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Dellinger, Bj

 
9798194900190: Mullet Men: The Forgotten Fishermen Who Built Florida’s Coast and the Fight to Save Their Way of Life

Synopsis

Before Florida became a land of waterfront condos, crowded beaches, luxury marinas, and endless development, there was another Florida.

A working Florida.

A Florida built by fishermen.

Mullet Men: The Forgotten Fishermen Who Built Florida’s Coast and the Fight to Save Their Way of Life tells the story of the commercial fishermen who worked the bays, rivers, passes, and shallow coastal waters of the Sunshine State for generations.

These men learned to read tides without electronics, spot schools of mullet by watching birds and surface movement, work heavy nets from small skiffs, survive hurricanes and dangerous water, and turn one of Florida’s most overlooked fish into a livelihood that supported families and entire coastal communities.

But the world around them changed.

As Florida’s population exploded, recreational fishing grew, waterfront development spread, and conservation battles intensified, the Mullet Men found themselves at the center of one of the biggest fishing conflicts in state history.

The result was the 1994 constitutional amendment that dramatically restricted commercial net fishing and changed old Florida’s working waterfronts forever.

Inside this book, you’ll discover the history of Florida’s mullet industry, the rise of fish houses and coastal seafood markets, the dangerous life of commercial fishermen, the valuable roe rush, the fishing towns that helped build Florida’s coast, the bitter Great Net War, and the fishermen who adapted after the old nets went away.

This is more than a book about fishing.

It is a story about tradition, survival, family, politics, conservation, development, and a disappearing piece of Florida history.

If you love old Florida, commercial fishing history, working waterfronts, Florida culture, coastal towns, and true stories about the people who built the Sunshine State, this book belongs on your shelf.

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