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No More 'Fishing Up'

More and more watermen from Maryland's Eastern Shore are turning to other jobs to make their living. A small population of former watermen are turning to prison work as correctional officers.

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Watermen Behind Razor Wire
Article | WESTOVER, Md. Everybody knows that the Chesapeake Bay's watermen are vanishing. This is where some of them went. At Eastern Correctional Institution, a state prison here on the Eastern Shore, the water is so close that gulls sometimes fly in and waddle around the yard. But the birds aren't the o...
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