laymen

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Though American baymen contend the crabs are not worth eating, Venetians would disagree, as soft-shell green crabs are the delicacy they call moleche.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2019

But Ms. Relyea said that her company and the baymen have the ability to coexist in the bay’s increasingly productive waters.

From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2014

Oysters also populated the Great South Bay off Blue Point and off Greenport in the Peconic Bay, between the north and south forks of Long Island, supporting hundreds of baymen.

From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2014

We learn that the ancestors of these baymen, as they are now known, learned to fish with nets from the Montauket Indians.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2012

Ten cents apiece was the price paid, and so lucrative a business did the shooting of these birds become that many baymen gave up their usual occupation of sailing pleasure parties and became gunners.

From The Bird Study Book by Pearson, Thomas Gilbert