Martha's Vineyard Magazine

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The Derby in Our DNA

Over the past eight decades, the Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass & Bluefish Derby has become more than an annual fishing competition. It’s a way of life.

The Usual

What will you have? For fifty years, Dock Street Coffee Shop has been serving comfort, familiarity, and good food.

The Perfect Catch

A new cookbook from the Martha’s Vineyard Fishermen’s Preservation Trust offers hope for the future of the industry.

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We were going to call this edition “The Fishue” – a portmanteau of “fishing” and “issue,” and a winking acknowledgement of the water-focused stories you’ll find in these pages. The only problem was we couldn’t figure out how to spell it.

By Vanessa Czarnecki

"One of the keys of being a good reporter and a good interviewer is listening – listening to what people are saying, but, more importantly, listening to what they aren’t saying."