{"id":5679,"date":"2008-07-01T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/explorebates.wordpress.com\/?p=265"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:31:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:31:39","slug":"a-hard-days-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2008\/07\/01\/a-hard-days-night\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hard Day&#039;s Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Images\/Bates_Magazine\/2008-summer\/features\/hlb-select-hlb_a52479-WEB.jpg\" alt=\"A fish-eye lens \u2014 no pun intended \u2014 captures the action aboard the Tenacious as Eric Hesse 86 (left) gaffs the fish coming through the de-hooker, then tosses them to crewmember Jeff Sampson (right) for processing. Meanwhile, a variety of sea birds, mostly shearwaters, catch a meal.\" width=\"400\" height=\"271\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fish-eye lens \u2014 no pun intended \u2014 captures the action aboard the Tenacious as Eric Hesse &#039;86 (left) gaffs the fish coming through the de-hooker, then tosses them to crewmember Jeff Sampson (right) for processing. Meanwhile, a variety of sea birds, mostly shearwaters, catch a meal.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Miles off Cape Cod aboard the <em>Tenacious, <\/em>commercial fisherman Eric Hesse \u201986 takes a minute to e-mail his wife, Lee Ann Swan Hesse \u201986.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;4000# ETA6,&#8221; he writes. Translation: 4,000 pounds of fish caught, home by 6 for dinner with Lee Ann and their two young boys. &#8220;GR8!&#8221; replies Lee Ann, keeping the exchange brief due to the pay-per-character satellite service aboard the <em>Tenacious<\/em>. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On this fishing trip last Nov. 8\u20139, Hesse leaves his West Barnstable, Mass., home around 9:30 p.m. and is under way from Harwichport about an hour later. The\u00a0<em>Tenacious<\/em>\u00a0heads 50 miles offshore to fish the 4 a.m. &#8220;slack&#8221; tide \u2014 when the current slackens near high or low tide, in this case the latter.<\/p>\n<p>A longline fisherman, Hesse puts out mile-long demersal (sinking) strings with thousands of hooks baited with mackerel or herring. Before a hint of daylight, he and crew member Jeff Sampson have already put out and hauled back two strings. &#8220;It seems like it\u2019s always dark in November,&#8221; says Hesse.<\/p>\n<p>By 2 p.m., the\u00a0<em>Tenacious\u00a0<\/em>is back at Harwichport to offload the catch \u2014 mostly haddock, plus some cod and other species \u2014 which is trucked to auction. Some is purchased directly by a local upscale restaurant.<br \/>\nSays Eric with a laugh, &#8220;People tell me, \u2018If you love what you do, you\u2019ll never work a day in your life.\u2019 Well, I\u2019ve worked plenty of hard days. And I still love what I do.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 205px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x176310.xml#\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/images\/Bates_Magazine\/2008-summer\/features\/hlb_a52756-WEB-th.jpg\" alt=\"VIEW SLIDE SHOW: Aboard the Tenacious Photographs by H. Lincoln Benedict 09\" width=\"195\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">VIEW SLIDE SHOW: Aboard the Tenacious Photographs by H. Lincoln Benedict &#039;09<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fishing long, odd hours creates an unusual family routine, but it\u2019s part of what brought him and Lee Ann together. &#8220;It\u2019s what I first loved about Eric \u2014 the passion he has for it,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A commercial fishing trip with Eric Hesse &#8217;86 and the Tenacious<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[10856,4027,5214],"class_list":["post-5679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","tag-bates-magazine","tag-h-lincoln-benedict","tag-lee-ann-swan-hesse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62676,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679\/revisions\/62676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}