Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands - Part 15
From: WCAI / WNAN
Series: Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands
Length: 04:59
Those who serve Cape Cod's poor are the first to point out that behind the veil of the affluent summer paradise we all recognize, hides a community that continually struggles to make ends meet. This duPont-Columbia Award-winning series examines the unique factors that contribute to persistent and hidden poverty throughout the Cape and Islands region.
Each story is set in one of the fifteen towns on Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.
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(04:35)
From: WCAI / WNAN
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(05:09)
From: WCAI / WNAN
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(05:07)
From: WCAI / WNAN
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(04:52)
From: WCAI / WNAN
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(05:19)
From: WCAI / WNAN
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Those who serve Cape Cod's poor are the first to point out that behind the veil of the affluent summer paradise we all recognize, hides a community that continually struggles to make ends meet. This duPont-Columbia Award-winning series examines the unique factors that contribute to persistent and hidden poverty throughout the Cape and Islands region. Each story is set in one of the fifteen towns on Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.
Transcript
The waters off Cape Cod have long been renown for great fishing. For generations, bold fleets of sailors have begun their hunt for fish from Provincetown, the outermost tip of Cape Cod. Provincetown's harbor was once filled with hundreds of draggers. Today, there are just over a dozen. More and more people leave the industry each year.
Provincetown fisherman Pedro Verde bought his own fishing dragger, the Blue Ocean, with his partner Louis Rebus five years ago. Most days, the boat is sits tied up at MacMillan Pier. Government regulations allow Verde just fifty-two fishing days each year.
Pedro Verde: "I learned how to fish since ten years old in Portugal. All my families are fishermen there. I went in the Grand Banks five months straight. So I've been coming here, I thought my life change here, but my life not changed here."
Verde is the last in a long line of the bold Portug...
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