Greenbook: A Local Guide to Chesapeake Living - Issue 8 | Page 8

CITY OF CRISFIELD
Owned by Captain Art Daniels, a native
of Deale Island, City of Crisfield is one of
the last working skipjacks on the Tangier
Sound. Skipjacks are indigenous to the
CAPTAIN ART DANIELS
Chesapeake Bay. Designed in the 1800’s
Art Daniels is 94 years to
oldhelp
and watermen
has
comply with fishing
worked more than 70 seasons
on
the required harvesting under
regulations that
water. He was widely known
as one are built from wood and
sail, skipjacks
of the oldest watermendesigned
still actively
to allow watermen access to
working the Bay when fishing
he recently
grounds other boats can’t reach.

retired.
“Art truly inspired me to create
Working the Water”, says Fleming.
“The age of the average waterman
is between 55 and 60. It is an aging
industry. To me, Art represents an
older way of life, not just because
of his age, but also because of the
massive transformation of the fishing
industry over his lifetime”.

CAPTAIN ART DANIELS
Art Daniels is 94 years old and has
worked more than 70 seasons on the
water. He was widely known as one
of the oldest watermen still actively
working the Bay when he recently
retired.
“Art truly inspired me to create
Working the Water”, says Fleming.
“The age of the average waterman
is between 55 and 60. It is an aging
industry. To me, Art represents an
older way of life, not just because
of his age, but also because of the
massive transformation of the fishing
industry over his lifetime”.

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GREENBOOK | SUMMER 2016