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Northshore October 2025
Paul Vitale of Gloucester has been fishing off his boat, the Angela Rose, for 24 years. Most of the time, these days, he heads out to sea alone. Then, in the summer of 2019, a movie crew came to town.  Looking to portray the Gloucester fishing life as accurately as possible, the producers of the film CODA, about a largely deaf fishing family in Gloucester, asked Vitale if he could show them the ropes and let them use his boat. He agreed, and the experience was like none other in his history on the water. He hauled up nets of freshly caught fish for fishing scenes, taught the actors how to sort the catch like a real commercial fisherman, a
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