How "commuting" Norwegian fishermen helped build the scallop fisheries along America's Atlantic and Pacific coasts

WHEN I ENJOY SCALLOPS, COD OR KING CRAB, MY THOUGHTS go back to the final Norwegian emigration to America and the fascinating lives ofthose courageous men and women who, by their hard work, ingenuity and sacrifice made this seafood available to all. I eat with pride and awareness, as my family was part of this 20th-century Norwegian emigrant group.

The emigrants who came to America after World War I, through the end of the 1960s, often went back and forth across the Atlantic-as a pendulum on a clock-and hence were called, in Norwegian, "pendlers". They first sailed to the east ...

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