wanchese in a sentence

1. When they sold up, they all became millionaires – a rarity in Wanchese.

2. An empty chair sits at a dock in Wanchese, North Carolina, May 30, 2017.

3. That was the year Wanchese fishermen decided there was money in the fish.

4. Through the years, the families in Wanchese haven’t been afraid to gamble on a hunch.

5. The Daniels siblings took over the Wanchese Seafood Company when their father died in 1986.

6. It took a few years, but Wanchese’s entrepreneurial fishermen got to work on summer flounder.

7. it took a few years, but wanchese's entrepreneurial fishermen got to work on summer flounder.

8. On a cold December day hundreds of miles north of Wanchese, snow whips through the New Bedford, Mass., fishing fleet.

9. Nearly a quarter-century ago, when the fishermen of Wanchese were riding high, the U.S. government set quotas for summer flounder.

10. nearly a quarter-century ago, when the fishermen of wanchese were riding high, the u.s. government set quotas for summer flounder.

11. Forty years ago, Tillett fished for summer flounder in December and January in waters near Wanchese, then followed the fish north as the weather warmed.

12. At 75 feet and specifically designed for fishing on the high seas, his would loom over many of the flounder trawlers that steamed out of Wanchese in the 1980s.

13. Over a 10-day period, he illegally caught about 12,000 pounds of striped bass, landing the fish here in Wanchese, according to the United States Attorney's Office.

14. In the early 1990s, summer flounder stocks were on the verge of collapse after being overfished in the 1970s and 1980s, primarily by Wanchese and other North Carolina fishermen.

15. Plus, he says, the Wanchese fishermen established the business and the North Carolina economy is entitled to benefit from that work, even if it’s no longer feasible for the fishermen to work the waters as much as they once did, he said.