Carrying on a tradition: Capt. Mike Brewer and crewman Walter Boyko work one of the last of Maine's sardine carriers. (At Sea).

National Fisherman | January 1, 2003| | Copyright

Mike Brewer leans back in a beat-up car seat that serves as a captain's chair. As the late October sun sets and the empty boat pounds into the south wind, he glances between the plotter and the horizon.

"This business is an escape from reality," he says. He crossed the threshold an hour ago, when the 70-foot sardine carrier, Double Eagle, left the wharf in Rockland, Maine. In the fickle herring business, he seldom knows where he will get fish or where he will sell them.

Tonight, Brewer is headed toward Monhegan, where he plans to rendezvous with Western ...

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