Source: Rachel Siegel, WASHINGTON POST, 11/1/19

A gold and pink glow creeps over the horizon as Mandy Perry sets sail on her 43-foot boat. In the hours ahead, she and her two-man crew will tend to dozens of wooden lobster traps, plucking out the day’s flailing haul in an instinctive, fluid motion before restocking the traps with frozen mackerel and red fish and sending them back out to sea. “When fishing does good, everybody else in the community does good,” said Perry, 30, one of a handful of female captains in these waters.

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