David Wright

At the fishing ports of Rhode Island, the price of dockside diesel fuel jumped nearly 50% last month.

It's now $5.75 a gallon.

If it climbs much higher, sea captains like Patrick Duckworth say it may soon become too expensive to fish.

The price of fish doesn't come up, the price of fuel doesn't go down, and you're going to see this harbor full all summer long.

Meaning they won't be going out on the water?

Yep, won't be going out on the water, and less money, probably a lot of people that won't have jobs.

Seafood processors say it's a double whammy, not only to higher fuel prices cut into the fishermen's pockets, they also hit harder for truckers who transport the fish where it needs to go.

For NPR News, I'm David Wright in Narragansett, Rhode Island.

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The two of them were roughly the same age.

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He specialized in research about fusion energy.