Chesapeake Quarterly
July 2012

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"Down in Solomons Island, Maryland,  Rachel Dean and her husband run a fishing, crabbing, and tour business using the 40-foot boat Roughwater. She wants her two-year-old daughter Jamie (above with her mother in the crab shedding house) to have the option of following in her footsteps — which is why
she refused a state offer to buy her crabbing licenses."

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SoMdNews.com
Friday, September 2, 2011
"Southern Maryland Watermen Navigating More than the Waters"

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“Simon Dean said that true collaboration was needed with the state in order for progress to occur in the area’s waters."

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The United Methodist Reporter
August 2, 2012
"Teacher, Waterman Sees her Work as Sacred Trust"

"Ms. Dean, 30, is a teacher at a local high school and a commercial fisherman. She is concerned that her students often lament about living in Lusby, saying they can’t wait to graduate and leave. But, she said, they don’t seem to know about the joy and their heritage on the water, which is all around them."
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Calvert Recorder
Wednesday July 7, 2010
"If men can do it, so can women"

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" 'My mom took me crabbing and fishing when I was a kid,' Dean said. She got her captain's license after college. 'My dad always said I should get a real job, but I can't get away from it. I love it.' "

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Mariner Chesapeake
June 5, 2012

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"Chesapeake Workboat Roughwater – Be a Waterman for a day and take a one hour excursion aboard the Roughwater, a Chesapeake Workboat with Captain Rachel Dean. "

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SoMdNews.com
Friday, April 27, 2007
"Time to start reeling them in"

 

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The Enterprise
Friday, November 27, 2009
"Can They Still Make a Living Out There?"

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Calvert  News.info
"Annual Patuxent River Clean Up" March 31, 2012

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"Join friends, neighbors and patrons of clean  water on Maryland’s longest and deepest intrastate waterway for the Annual Patuxent Trash Clean-Up."

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The Recorder Friday, May 29, 2009
"These Fish Tales Include Props"

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"Dean, an English teacher at Patuxent High School, said she had a fiberglass replica of a 42-inch rockfish made because it was the first rockfish caught while she was operating as the charter captain. "Nothing feels as good as the first fish … it's what we call ‘getting the skunk out of the boat,'" she said."

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Chesapeake Conservancy
Watermen's Heritage Training Tourism Program (WHTTP)

WHTTP introduction video by David Hawkhurst
Go to Chesapeake Conservancy

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Maryland Department of Natural Resources

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Bay Weekly
August 27 - September 2, 2009
"Working the Water"

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   "Captain Rachel Dean is not a stripper, but there has been some confusion.
   At seven-months pregnant, Dean walked onto the docks to assist her husband with a bachelor party charter.
  “Alright! The stripper’s here!” shouted one of the bachelors.
   “That’s my pregnant wife,” corrected Simon Dean, captain of the Red Osprey, where Rachel is first mate."

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102.9 WKIK
Spring Fishing Contest 2011

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Calvert Recorder
Friday March 30, 2012
"Vanquishing old ghosts"

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" 'We’re spring cleaning the basement of the bay,' Epkins said as she watched a nearby waterman pull yet another trap out of the greenish waters of the bay."

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