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Watermen Heritage Tourism 
Chesapeake Conservancy
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Chesapeake Bay Commercial Striped Bass Fishery (aka rockfish)
June 30, 2019
Capital Seaboard
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The Bay Net 
May 2017
Museum Displays Region’s Maritime Heritage

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"Solomons, MD - The rich history of where the Chesapeake Bay meets the Patuxent River was showcased Saturday, May 6 at Calvert Marine Museum (CMM). The facility in Solomons hosted its annual Maritime Festival. Although the looming clouds and possibility of rain kept the numbers down, visitors of all ages still took advantage of all there was to see and do."
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SoMdNews.com
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Rare find to be displayed this weekend at JPPM's Archaeology Day
 Watermen discover 300-year-old olive oil jar

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Just in time to be displayed for Discovering Archaeology Month, a rare archaeological find was caught in oyster tongs last month: an entire 300-year-old olive oil jar used for transatlantic trade. On March 25, watermen from Solomons Island Heritage Tours and Patuxent River Seafood found the barnacle-encased jar in the Patuxent River.
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National Fisherman
"Sometimes one boat just isn’t enough"

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"Dean currently fishes a 40-foot fiberglass and wood deadrise built by John Kinnamon Sr. of Tilghman, Island, Md. The boat works fine, but the distance between Dean’s fisheries prompted him to look for a second boat."
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Captain Rachel Dean: High School Teacher by Weekday, Waterman by Weekend
WAMU 88.5

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       "See, in addition to teaching young people — and the mother of two actually teaches professionally: high-school English — Captain Rachel Dean also works on and around the Chesapeake Bay as a waterman."
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Chesapeakebay.net
January 16, 2014
"Photo Essay: Patent Tonging for Oysters on the Patuxent River"

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"Dean and his wife, Rachel, are working to change this oft-held perception, using heritage tourism to teach both children and adults about estuarine life and the role that watermen play in the region’s history and economy."
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St. Mary's County Oyster Festival

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Judges Rachel Dean, Loic Jaffers and Noreen Eberly pose with 2013 King Oyster Larry Branthoover
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Chesapeake Bay Program
Photo Essay Flickr
Photos by Guy Stephens/ Southern Maryland Photography

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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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Farms in Focus: Oyster Aquaculture
October 16, 2019
Southern Maryland Agricultural Development Commission

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"The Southern Maryland Agricultural Development Commission (SMADC) is excited to launch a new Video Series – "Farms in Focus", showcasing Southern Maryland’s diverse agriculture."

Watermen Heritage Tours
Partners: Chesapeake Conservancy, Coastal Heritage Alliance, Maryland Watermen's Association, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum

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"Now considered an endangered Maryland icon, watermen are intertwined with the unique identity of the Chesapeake Bay, influencing its history, culture, and economy. Watermen Heritage Tours offers a rare glimpse into their way of life. More than entertaining, these authentic experiences are helping to preserve a culture and continue a Chesapeake Bay tradition."
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ASMFC Fisheries Focus
Volume 25 Issue 3
September/ October 2016
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Service: June 2016- March 2018

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

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​WHTTP introduction video by David Hawkhurst
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News21.com
Bay on the Brink
Interview with Captain Simon Dean


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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Watermen Heritage Tourism Training Program
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Coastal Angler Magazine
Stranger Things from the Bottom of the Bay

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Waterwomen: A Handful of Heroines Work the Chesapeake Bay
Baltimore Magazine

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"During the slow spring, Rachel kills time before the crab and rockfish seasons by potting for eel, which will be sold to local buyers to be marketed as food and bait. “You can’t just say I’m going to be an oysterman, or a fisherman, or a crabber,” she says. “You have to do a little everything to get by."
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The United Methodist Reporter
August 2, 2012

"Teacher, Waterman Sees her Work as Sacred Trust"

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"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.' "


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

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Panelists Discuss Competition in Crab Industry
October 2, 2014

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"Dean is a first generation waterman who also owns a wholesale seafood business in Lusby, near the mouth of the Patuxent River.
She, along with the other panelists, stressed the importance of educating the public on watermen and the local seafood industry. She gives heritage tours and helps the watermen’s association facilitate programs like Waterman’s Appreciation Day at the maritime museum."

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102.9 WKIK
Spring Fishing Contest 2011

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

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Calvert County Watermen's Association Oyster Lease Planting

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Ghost Pot Recovery Program                        March 19-22, 2012                     Cedar Point to Cove Point

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      Each year watermen lose numerous crab pots when storms come through the Bay or corks are cut off by other boats.  These pots, expensive to replace, are often difficult for watermen to reclaim. In an effort to ensure these pots do not continue to catch and kill various species, watermen are asked to reclaim these pots in a program that Senator Barbara Mikulski helped fund. The Maryland Geographical Administration and NOAA survey the bottom and help watermen identify areas with large numbers of ghost pots, so they can target them. In 2010, about 360 watermen removed more than 11,800 pieces of crab pot debris from Bay waters.
    This year the Roughwater participated in the ghost pot program retrieving over 30 crab pots and various other pieces of debris. From these pots various animals including manoes, toad fish, croaker, blue crabs, black sea bass, and oysters were returned to the Bay's waters.

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