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Spotlight: The Last of the Trap Fishers in Rhode Island

By David Schonauer   Wednesday October 25, 2017


Corey Wheeler Forrest knows from fresh fish.

She is a third-generation fish trapper and fish dealer from Sakonnet Point, Rhode Island, working alongside her brother, Luke Wheeler, and father, Alan Wheeler, on their trap boat, the Maria Mendonsa. Sometimes, she notes, when she delivers fish to the Fulton Fish Market …


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