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Article: S'had to be there: as the fish return to the South Carolina waters that spawned them, they seem destined to fill Dean Jordan's gillnets.(At Sea)
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- National Fisherman
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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A ton of fish in a 17-foot boat with three inches of freeboard? Plus three people?
I knew that the shad were running fast and furious in South Carolina. But I could not visualize the logistics of this equation. So I asked my friend Andy Jennings, coordinator of the Oyster Shell Recycling Program of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, if he could get me a ride with one of the Georgetown gillnetters.
He offered a better option. We could take his runabout and go along with one of the "top netters," Dean Jordan, while he checked his nets.
During the 12 or so weeks of the shad run, Jordan checks his nets routinely on each flood tide ...