A New Hampshire Fisherman's Tale: How the Pease Port Authority Suffocated My Small Business with Red Tape

By Derek Fisher

In A New Hampshire Fisherman's Tale, Derek Fisher invites readers into the salty, bone-cracked life of a solitary lobsterman whose only crime was renewing his mooring permit a few weeks too late. With poetic grit and unfiltered honesty, Fisher chronicles his backbreaking daily grind on the Atlantic Ocean, only to be blindsided by the cold fist of bureaucracy: the ice-hearted Pease Port Authority. Ultimately, his 30 years as a commercial fisherman collapses simply because of a clerical misstep that the Authority, blind to his desperate pleas, refuses to ignore.

What begins as a vivid portrait of a man bound to the sea becomes a gripping, Kafkaesque descent into red tape hell. Through gut-wrenching detail and righteous fury, Fisher reveals how a single blunder (a missed deadline) can sink a man's livelihood, dignity, and identity. This is more than a tale of late paperwork; it's a working-class David vs. Goliath, where the Goliath doesn't even bother to look up from its clipboard.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FF1TH5HP
• ISBN13: 9798288710049
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"