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The original inhabitants of Monterey Bay were many things: artists and engineers, hunters and foragers, healers and collaborators, spiritual seekers and problem solvers, herbalists and songmakers and storytellers.
As much as anything, the area’s indigenous were fishermen and women.
Local fisheries historian and author Tim Thomas, after decades studying the interplay of the earliest inhabitants and Monterey Bay, understands this well.
“I always remind people: Native people were the first commercial fishermen in Monterey,” he says. “It’s how they made their living.”
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