Pound net fishermen in Mathews, from left, George Burroughs, Johnnie Frank Johnson and L.W. “Snooks” Burroughs, sorted the day’s catch in June 1989. The men brought their catch to the wharf at New Point aboard the fishing boat “Pet.” Snooks Burroughs, captain, operated two nets that year, and termed the 1989 season “The worst I ever seen it in my life … (no) good fish.”
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