Commercial Fisherman Thomas Allen Hoxsie of the Point Judith Fishing community, has passed away
Thomas A. Hoxsie,64, passed away Sunday May, 9, 2021. A lifelong resident of Narragansett, Tom was the son of the late Samuel Bailey and Anne Nichols Hoxsie. He was the beloved husband of Doris Aschman and devoted father of Sarah and Benjamin Hoxsie Tom was a fixture of the Point Judith Fishing community, spending over 30 years tending floating fish traps, lobstering on his boat, the North Star, and raising Point Judith Salts oysters. Tom was unique in his ability to see forward and backwards in time. He saw the fishing industry in its entirety – as a business, a way of life and as a part of a whole. >click to read< 07:15
It was always a treat to sit with Tom and have a chat. He always asked how my son Jake was doing up in Alaska and was interested to hear of his adventures.
Tom was a unique person, the real deal and among the last of that type of Fisherman. He quietly went about his business of running his Fish Trap operation and then settled in to his Oyster operation in the
“Pond”. He was a very accomplished skiff builder that is a skill that he was always willing to share with others.
We were all better for knowing Tom and my trips to the docks will not be the same without him being there to chat with and sit in the truck for awhile.
We could all learn from his example as a Fisherman and as a good person.
I can only hope that Tom is in a better place and that our paths may cross again some day.
God bless you Tom, you fought until the end.
Ed Everich
What a great remembrance!!! In time this noble vocation will be nothing but a foot-note as the NARRATIVE changes… How sad as we have become the ENDANGERED SPECIE!!!
SAVE OUR OCEANS
-SBH-
RIP CAPT. HOXSIE