Charleston, South Carolina – Stopped in at Mount Pleasant Seafoods, a fish house started in 1946. The owner, Walter Toler, had just died the month before, but the fish house itself, had already died in the headlong rush by regulators to reduce fishing effort. Shem Creek was once a bustling fishing community that supported several fish houses, and once supplied all of Charleston with fresh seafood. Today, like many – or even most – fishing communities around the nation, it is populated with recreational boats and restaurants, leaving only a token fishing fleet. While Mt. Pleasant Seafoods still maintains a fish market out front, the unloading dock now has a new product to replace the shrimp and fish – kayaks!
