NATIONAL FISHERMAN • February 16, 2022
When Andrew Joyce came home to Swans Island, Maine, for a visit in 2020, his father, an 8th-generation fisherman, told him what Maine’s fishing industry was up against, particularly whale rules for lobstermen and wind farms taking bottom from all fisheries. While Joyce didn’t follow his father, Jason, into fishing, seeing wind farms and other aspects of the Blue Economy threatening his family and community has spurred the veteran video maker into action. So far, he has produced four videos telling the stories of people and the marine ecosystem they depend on in a stand-off with corporate power. Joyce’s videos are accessible on his YouTube channel “The Maine Reset.”