That year commercial fishermen landed 458 tons.

"Your fishermen have landed, Rosamund," he said,"and doubtless gone up to Bradwell."

As a result, the federal government decreased the number of days fishermen could land cod, haddock, flounder and other so-called groundfish species.

In summer, fishermen land their catches in the bay and sell them from small stalls set on the flat rocks surrounding the beach.

Being very lucky, the fisherman had landed about 40 large yellow fin tuna the morning of our arrival.

The fishermen had landed him with the same adroitness they had shown before.

For generations commercial fishermen have landed their catches at Rock Landing.

In 1985 fishermen landed seven million pounds of groundfish in Stonington alone.

According to one legend, the island was actually a floating, insubstantial place until some fishermen landed on it in a fog.

Some 60,000 fishermen landed 48,000 tons a year.