Abstract
In an article he wrote in 1942 for The American Neptune Fred Hunt remembered fishing the Campeche Bank of the northern coast of the Yucatan in the "late 'teens" when the Pensacola red snapper fleet was "the only big American deep-sea fishing fleet using all-sail vessels exclusively." Though he admitted the fleet was perhaps not as picturesque as it seemed to him at his "meeting salt water for the first time," the Alabama native penned a colorful tale of the men who plied the waters of the Gulf and drank away their pay in the bars and saloons of Pensacola. In the course of his narrative, as he described the transition from sails to diesel-powered engines, he also unwittingly provided a chronicle of the effect of technology and the impact of a modern consumer economy on the fishing industry.1
Recommended Citation
Paupp, Jason T.
(2006)
"Fish On: Pensacola's Red Snapper Fishery,"
Florida Historical Quarterly: Vol. 85:
No.
3, Article 5.
Available at:
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol85/iss3/5
