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Thank you Michelle for the difficult but insightful hour on fishing families.
My family has been in the fishing business over 50 years out of Garibaldi. I tend not to listen to news reports of fishing, or care to watch Deadliest Catch, as the ocean is now an ugly sight to me. Perhaps some day I will see the beauty in it again. The ocean has taken my brother, my son, friends, and disabled my brother-in-law. Yes, the intrique of fishing is still there, as I continue to have family fish the sea, though in constant worry of them, especially during winter months. You are right as well, that the community support, even years later, is amazing. God Bless You and Your Family.
Teresa Vandecoevering Freeman

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