[0:00] ..." I'm running young it here and now and Gloucester Massachusetts has been in the news lately but a spike in teen pregnancies is just one of the many problems. In America's oldest fishing port as -- here today. But first today five years after the US led invasion Iraq began attended -- process to open its oil fields the world's third largest. International oil companies haven't done business in Iraq since Saddam Hussein came to power in the 1970s. The Bush Administration had promised that profits from the oil fields would pay for the war in Iraq and the country's reconstruction but. Those fields have been under performing today's New York Times reports that American officials have been advising Iraqis on the awarding of the contract that was supposed to be awarded today. Andrew"...

[4:51] ..." It's in Ukraine reporter for the New York Times. Speaking to us from Moscow. And the city of Gloucester Massachusetts has been in the news lately you may have heard about a spike in teen pregnancies at the high school. -- was also the setting of the book and film a perfect storm based on the real tragedy of the sinking of the fishing boat the Andrea Gail in 1991. -- you may not know that TS Eliot Edward hopper and Winslow homer all lived in"...

[5:52] ..." the fate of the Atlantic. And survival in Gloucester America's oldest fishing port and the most original town. And mark joins us from -- San Francisco welcome -- hero through those people outside of"...

[6:15] ..." There is it is is the oldest fishing port in the United States founded as a fishing station. In 1623 and for all of this time it has been completely focused I'm commercial fishing. And everything about the town was connected to. Commercial fishing it's why so many artists went there they went there to paint to harbor in the fishing scene and it's the reason why is there is that particular combination of ethnic background superiors the people who came there for the fishing industry. Irish for a maritime Canada and the Portuguese from the azores in the Sicilian and and Jews from the New York garment industry who went there to make fishing clothes -- of the peculiarities of Gloucester is that it's a manmade island it's connected to the rest of Kate and by"...

[7:57] ..." local forests and they. Made their own nets in the image around fishing clothing the oil scans and it was always this this world unto itself."...

[12:14] ..." Is one of those well let's face it to a Steve former fishing towns that we have all over the east coast where you might have a red painted -- here and there but. Nobody"...

[12:33] ..." by this in Gloucester is still. Miraculously -- of the ten largest fishing ports in America."...

[12:39] ..." In Rockport Massachusetts right next to Gloucester the fishing -- that anyone paints there is kept up by the town. Because there hasn't been a fisherman and it in decades."...

[13:04] ..." Will you read that the story of the decline of fishing in Gloucester is both simple overfishing of stocks depleted the stocks but it's also complicated. Fish stocks are killed off by worms that -- seals seals have taken up residence in nearby Cape Cod to the delight of the tourism industry there. So what happens next for America's oldest fishing -- we'll have more and author mark Smolinski. Also later John McCain's campaign who evangelicals can."...

[13:31] ..." Lansky his new book the last fish tale tells the story of Gloucester Massachusetts America's oldest fishing port. In severe economic decline because of depleted fishing stocks. There have been government assistance programs but also new laws that regulate it capsized. Fisherman now collender regulators when they leave the dock sometimes monitors travel on board with them -- electronic devices monitor boat movement. The fisherman have to report their cat -- to throw back over catch even if the fish are dead. And they arrange for officials to meet them at the -- Most have been forced out of fishing infected 2006 study by project bridge showed that the number of families in -- that skipped meals. Because they can't afford food tripled in the last three years. And -- you traveled the world and found other fishing villages are even selling fish anymore in places like Newfoundland for instance."...

[14:49] ..." And you also found the French Basque fishing villages -- on to lose surviving barely. Because of the fishing fleet is kept away from tourists on one side of town. -- shops and restaurants on the other officials have segregated the fishing fleet they discouraged tourists from going and gawking at the early morning fish auction and that help it's a treat they they treat the fishing communities like an endangered species. And kind of -- now -- tourism."...

[15:17] ..." And and fishing and face if things seem compatible at the end of competing for space and the problem is that there's more money in"...

[15:56] ..." England. In Carlyle yes. You know which on this peninsula of traditional fishing where it's the last hold out everything around it has become completely about tourism and you know in this one sort of tough places. It is still remains on a fishing place you know this is something that is happening to fisheries all over the world and you know this this this way"...

[17:47] ..." going to solve the problem. And that if they didn't stop the fishing technique now before a lot of money was invested in buying these big drag -- that it would be very hard to"...

[18:11] ..." new Nantucket or will it be able to hold on to. It's fishing. "...

[20:12] ..." seem to sort of underscore you know we may not be fishing. As much as we collectively but they're still. What still risking still -- I think it's as you know we're still Gloucester"...

[20:31] ..." And they just celebrated St. Peter's castle from Gloucester Massachusetts this past weekend despite the economic downturn. Well tomorrow I'm here now colored rock concert college performance are just don't call the"...