A fourteen foot wave breaking the bow and crashing into the cockpit of the 50 foot Chelsea Ann doesn’t scare Bill “Bubba” Cochrane, its just part of his job as a Gulf of Mexico commercial fisherman. What scares him is losing the ability to harvest twenty percent of one of the most sustainable fish in the Gulf of Mexico.
Born and raised on the island of Galveston, located South of Houston, the 44-year-old red snapper fisherman has made the waters of the Gulf of Mexico his second home since the age of 19.
“I started in recreational fishing as a deckhand for charter boats,” said the burly Texan standing on the dock of his island home. “ When I turned 20 I made the switch to being a deckhand on commercial boats.”
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