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Jay Fleming.
Jay Fleming
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Jay Fleming is a freelance photographer and writer based in Annapolis, Md.
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James “Ooker” Eskridge, a working waterman and the mayor of Tangier, lifts a peeler pot into his workboat Sreedevi in Cod Harbor, Va. Ooker’s workboat is named after one of his four daughters, all of whom he and his wife, Irene, adopted from India. Jay Fleming photo
Island Life: Jay Fleming documents Chesapeake Bay’s offshore communities
The shrimp trawler Jimmy and Charlie Jr. ran aground at the mouth of the Altamaha River in Georgia Nov. 4, 2021. Jay Fleming photo.
Aground on the Altamaha; Georgia inlet claims a shrimper
‘We could see the writing on the wall’: Maryland’s million-dollar shutdown
The crew of the dayboat Chasin
Scallops on the double
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