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Oculina Bank Oral History Project

Oculina Bank Oral History Project

The Oculina Bank is a 90-mile strip of coral reef near the continental shelf between Cape Canaveral and Ft. Pierce. It gets its name from the presence of Oculina varicosa coral banks, thickets, and rubble zones. Since 1984, various regulations have limited or prohibited fishing in this Habitat Area of Particular Concern (HAPC). In 2010, the Gulf and South Atlantic Fisheries Foundation Inc., University of Florida anthropology doctoral candidate Ava Lasseter, and the USF Libraries Oral History Program began an oral history project to assess the Oculina Bank HAPC's impact on Ft. Pierce recreational, charter, and commercial fishermen.

Submissions from 2010 2010

Albert Ashley oral history interview, Albert Ashley (Interviewee)

Lewis Augusta oral history interview, Lewis P. Augusta (Interviewee)

Scott Bachman oral history interview, Scott Bachman (Interviewee)

Billy Baird oral history interview, Billy Baird (Interviewee)

Larry Benning oral history interview, Larry Benning (Interviewee)

Robert Benton oral history interview, Robert Benton (Interviewee)

Ben Bryan oral history interview, Ben Bryan

Kalani Cairns oral history interview, Kalani Cairns (Interviewee)

Glenn Cameron oral history interview, Glenn Cameron Mr.

Robert Cardin oral history interview, Robert Cardin (Interviewee)

Robert Leonard Christensen oral history interview, Robert Leonard Christensen (Interviewee)

Joseph Clanton oral history interview, Joseph Clanton (Interviewee)

Tris Colket oral history interview, Tristram C. Colket IV (Interviewee)

John Conlon oral history interview, John M. Conlon (Interviewee)

Samuel Crutchfield oral history interview, Samuel Crutchfield (Interviewee)

Frederick Dunn and David Knight oral history interview, Frederick Dunn (Interviewee) and David Knight (Interviewee)

Marcia Foosaner oral history interview, Marcia Foosaner (Interviewee)

James Gallagher oral history interview, James Gallagher (Interviewee)

Chuck Hawkins oral history interview, Charles Hawkins (Interviewee)

Michael D. Hogan oral history interview, Michael D. Hogan (Interviewee)

Thomas Jones oral history interview, Thomas Jones (Interviewee)

Edward Killer oral history interview, Edward Killer (Interviewee)

David King oral history interview, David King (Interviewee)

Joseph Klostermann oral history interview, Joseph Klostermann Jr. (Interviewee)

Richard Kluglein oral history interview, Richard J. Kluglein (Interviewee)

Emil LaViola oral history interview, Emil LaViola (Interviewee)

Neil Logan oral history interview, Neil Logan (Interviewee)

Steve Lowe oral history interview, Steve Lowe

Gerald Lee Metz oral history interview, Gerald Lee Metz (Interviewee)

Glenn Middlebrooks oral history interview, William Glenn Middlebrooks (Interviewee)

Gary Mills oral history interview, Gary Mills (Interviewee)

Christopher Nelson oral history interview, Christopher Nelson (Interviewee)

Scott Osborne oral history interview, Scott Osborne (Interviewee)

Don Raffensberger oral history interview, Donald Raffensberger (Interviewee)

James Reeves oral history interview, James A. Reeves (Interviewee)

Roger Rucker oral history interview, Roger Rucker (Interviewee)

Chip Shafer oral history interview, Irving Shafer (Interviewee)

Victor Shilling oral history interview, Victor Shilling (Interviewee)

Edward Smith oral history interview, Edward Smith

Herman Summerlin oral history interview, Herman Summerlin (Interviewee)

William Thiess oral history interview, William Thiess (Interviewee)

Bud Tillman oral history interview, Murray Clayton Tillman Jr. (Interviewee)

Allen Tyrrell oral history interview, Allen Tyrrell (Interviewee)

Fox Watkins oral history interview, Maltby Foxworthy Watkins Jr. (Interviewee)

Billy Yates oral history interview, Billy Yates (Interviewee)