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Commercial Fishing

  1. Fishing: More than just a hobby in Cape May

    Text by Jennifer Brownstone Kopp | Published September 1st, 2002 in Commercial Fishing • Fishing

    To call fishing a pastime, or hobby, is an understatement in Cape May . For many, it’s an entire life. Families live by the sea — their livelihood dependent on Mother Nature’s good will. Their lifestyles are different, reliant on weather, tides, seasons.

  2. Fisherman’s Wharf Tour Answers Some Fishy Questions

    Text by Cindy J. Kluger | Published May 1st, 2002 in Commercial Fishing • Fishing • Tours

    The Lobster House Dock is part of The Port of Cape May, one of three  commercial fishing docks in southern Jersey whose combined success make Cape May the second largest fishing port on the Eastern Coast of the United States.
    Fishing has been a major industry in this area since the 19th century, but it is [...]

  3. Cape May’s Seafood Industry: Dangerously Delicious

    Text by Brad Murphy | Published May 1st, 2000 in Commercial Fishing • Fishing

    Cape May is the second busiest site for the off-loading of seafood ont he East Coast. Approximately 11-million pounds of seafood are off-loaded annually at Fisherman’s Wharf for distribution to points throughout the globe: 600,000 pounds of flounder, 120,000 pounds of lobster, 1.5 million pounds of sea scallops, and massive quantities of at least 18 other seafood varieties pass through the plant on its way to plates world-wide.