“When I got my first fishing boat, I was single, and I had just met Pam. I was making that big leap where I was going to borrow money to buy my own boat and go into lobstering,” Skip says. “We worked together, day after day after day, scraping and painting that boat and making it so pretty. [Pam is] an interior designer now, so she had an eye for the right colors. Everything in the boat ended up being beautiful. And the first trip I took on my new boat, she went with me. She never went again, but she went that one time. That's how my career with her and my family started. That was the first day of the rest of my life, so that was a great memory for me in the seafood business.”

Since March of 2020, Chris has been selling his catch from the dock as well as at farmers markets and distribution sites. "We've made some strong relationships with people, and they really enjoy our story,” he explains. Before COVID, Chris mainly sold to wholesale dealers who then sold his product to restaurants and markets; now, his model is largely community-based. The shift is astounding: "we have people that appreciate our family and our business so much that they'll drive from New York to buy a pound or two of our scallops,” Chris remarks.