Check out website of Mary Fox, Author of THE LAST SKIPJACK
Here's Mary Fox's website, which provides some context for her novel, The Last Skipjack.
Please check it out: https://www.maryhfox.com/ . What, for example, is a Skipjack? Follow her link to an NPR interview with an elderly skipjack captain here:
https://www.npr.org/tags/425910172/chesapeake-bay.
It's a beautifully crafted book, subtle, humane, and somehow dangerous. Read it.