Jersey Shore Folk Life Center
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Captain Fred Kalm
Bayman and Charter Boat Captain
Captain
Fred Kalm from New Gretna, NJ is a bayman who has spent most of his life
making a living from the Tuckerton Bay. A former charter boat captain,
Fred Kalm used to run fishing parties on the Sapphire Lady, a boat built
for him by his father, Otto Kalm, a former tug boat captain. Over the year,
Fred Kalm has tonged for clams and scallops, worked in the cranberry bogs
and raised oysters and springer spaniels. He signed with the Detroit Tigers
and played briefly in the minors before serving in Korean War on the Philippine
Sea. Today Fred Kalm is a full time clammer for Parson’s Clam House and
Captain for the Tuckerton Seaport.
In 1991 Fred
Kalm received Hurley Conklin Award presented to people who have lived in
the Barnegat Bay Tradition. Capt. Fred Kalm demonstrates tonging and runs
the Tuckerton Creek tours on the Seaport’s vintage charter boat, Melody
II.
