INDUSTRY NEWS
 

AT 5:45 A.M. ON JANUARY 6, 2004, Captain Al Kurtz, 38, steered his 22-foot runabout out of New Jersey’s Absecon Bay Marina, with the three waterfowl hunters he was guiding. It was 35 degrees, with star-studded clear skies. A cold front was coming in from Canada, and the west-northwest wind was already gusting to 18 MPH. At dawn, Kurtz placed his hunters in a blind in Absecon Bay.

At the same time, eight miles to the north, three men and a dog motored out of Atlantic County’s Oyster Creek.

The boat’s pilot and owner, Newt Sterling, 52, of Port Republic, is one of the last of New Jersey’s “Pineys,” men who make their living completely from the Pine Barrens and adjacent salt marsh. He is widely regarded as one of the most experienced baymen in South Jersey. His bearded face is lined.......

...Continued in the Summer 2005 Issue of Breakthrough.

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