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Dick Allen began his 36-year commercial fishing career as a clam digger while attending the University of Rhode Island. His first attempt at a college degree suffered from a lack of direction and his part-time fishing job soon became a full-time occupation. At that time he worked for the first lobster fishing company to set lobster traps on the U.S. outer-continental shelf, the Prelude Lobster Company.
After a tour of duty in Vietnam as a harbor craft boatswain in the U.S. Army, Allen was in the second graduating class of the fisheries and marine technology program at the University of Rhode Island. Allen also earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Natural Resource Development and a Master of Marine Affairs degree.
Allen returned to active fishing after obtaining his degrees. Since that time he has dredged surf clams, trawled and gillnetted groundfish, seined herring and menhaden, and experimented with light-fishing for squid, in addition to lobster fishing. He currently fishes for lobsters from the port of Pt. Judith, RI with the forty-four foot Ocean Pearl.
Contact
- Allen, Richard
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- Wakefield RI
- United States 02879
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- (401) 789-1463
