Tag Archives: Cortez Florida
Cortez: Net Spreads and Stilt Houses
This week a judge ruled that a famous stilt of the coast of A.P. Bell Fish Company in Sarasota Bay, must be removed. For more than a century, the people of Cortez have made a living harvesting seafood from Sarasota Bay. In the 1880s, the area was settled by five fisherman from Carteret County North Carolina – Charlie Jones, Jim Guthrie and three brothers, Billy, Nate and Sanford Fulford. Back then, Cortez was known as Hunter’s Point,,, The men had a vision, one where they would live off the sea and sell their catch at market. When their plan worked, a slew of relatives, all from Carteret County, followed them down,,, >click to read< 11:11
Fishing for business: Cortez one of Florida’s few remaining fishing villages
Karen Bell can’t think of anything she’d rather be doing than running a commercial fishing operation along Florida’s Gulf Coast. A.P. Bell, on the northern edge of Sarasota Bay, is one of the few remaining working waterfronts left in Florida. The company owns eight boats that dock at the pier. Another five independent fishers bring their catches to the fish house.The boats that catch bait for the offshore long-line fishermen and the stone crabbers go out for only a day at a time, but the fishermen who bring in the pop- ular grouper are often out in deep water for 10 or 12 days. Read the rest here 14:44
