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Capt. William
Saunders and
first mate Rusty aboard
the Miss Nicole (left and right);
Paula Jasinki and Ken Smith
(below); brothers Forrest
and Brad Dameron
(bottom).
ties amid Virginia's $21.2 billion tourism
industry.
The initiative comes not a moment
too soon for Virginia watermen, who
have been battered by everything from
pollution to increasing regulations to
fluctuating seafood yields.
Ken Smith, 67, president of the
Virginia Waterman's Association and an
initiator of the new tour program,
explains, " The water business is so different
than what it was 30 years ago. You
had to work, but it used to be kind of
lucrative. The resource isn't there like it
used to be. If watermen make it today,
they'll have to market themselves differently.
Hopefully, the heritage program
will help them do that. "
Paula Jasinki, president of
Gloucester's Chesapeake Environmental
Communications, helped Smith get the
ball rolling for the program. She
observes, " It pulls everybody under one
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umbrella. By putting this mass of captains
together, it develops some consistency
and professional training. "
Three decades ago, Smith says there
were about 8,000 commercially licensed
Virginia watermen; he estimates that there
are now about 3,000 watermen, adding,
" but I don't know how many of them are
actually [still] working. "
Brothers Forrest Dameron, 35, and
Brad Dameron, 32, of Wicomico Church
in Northumberland County, are fifth-generation
watermen embracing the heritage
program. Their family is involved in crabbing,
wild-oyster dredging, cage-raised
aquaculture oystering (via Forrest's Penny
Creek Oyster Farms) and a shucking
house/seafood-processing facility.
Forrest, who studied business administration
and aviation at Averett College,
is also a pilot and has flown fish-spotter
planes for Omega Protein's menhaden
industry in Reedville, which dates to
1878. His father, Cecil Dameron, has
been an Omega Protein pilot for years.
He also owns Dameron Seafood, which
supplies fresh seafood to restaurants,
including Cecil's own Kilmarnockbased
KC's Crabs & Cues Restaurant.
Now the family is adding watermen's
heritage tours, with hands-on summer
crab-potting tours and other customized
tours. Forrest calls the heritage
program " a way for us to tie it all
together. "
He started oyster farming in 2010
and has 500-plus cages of oysters on 80
acres of owned and leased bottom in
the Great Wicomico River. Known as
triploids, cage-raised oysters are diseaseresistant
and take 12 months to two
years to reach salable sizes (2 to 3 inches).
Wild oysters take three years to
reach " sale " maturity. Raising caged
oysters allows the Damerons to offer
oysters for sale year-round.
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