A New Hampshire Fisherman's Tale

How the Pease Port Authority Suffocated My Small Business with Red Tape

By: Derek Fisher

Narrated by: GS Hunt

In A New Hampshire Fisherman’s Tale, Derek Fisher invites listeners 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.

©2025 Fisher Lobster LLC (P)2025 Fisher Lobster LLC

The rules are the rules are the rules!!!

Men and women always have a choice. We have free will. We CHOOSE to do the right thing or the wrong thing. We are not animals or machines. We have consciences and human souls. Hiding behind ‘well, that’s the rules and the rules are the rules are the rules are the rules’ is the most cowardly and despicable action imaginable. What sad and savage creatures these board members of the NH Port Authority are. Listen, I believe in God. And He commands me to love and pray for my enemies. So I pray when this world has passed away He provides His GRACE to me, and also to the members of the PDA Board that so abysmally failed to grant any tenderness or grace to poor Derek.