United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018Holland, James,1940-Bean, Betsy2013James Holland is the retired Altamaha Riverkeeper. Holland grew up in Cochran, Georgia, where he first began hunting and fishing. Holland enlisted in the armed forces and became a Marine at age 17. After his service he moved to Brunswick and worked in the food service profession. In 1977 Holland became a commercial blue crab fisherman. Due to a dwindling crab population, in 1994 a group of crabbers banded together and got the Georgia Legislature to approve a Blue Crab Management Program limiting the number of crabbers and the number of crab traps that could be in the fishery. Holland continued to investigate the causes of the decline in the crab population by talking with scientists, biologists, professors, and fishermen about marine life and the environment in which they lived. He learned everything he could through personal research in the biology of fish, crab, and shrimp.In 1999, James Holland and others concerned about the health of the rivers formed the Altamaha Riverkeeper to address the statewide water quality problem. The organization works to restore and preserve the habitat, water, and flow of the Altamaha River from its headwaters in North Georgia to its terminus at the Atlantic Coast.Interviewed by Betsy Bean.video/mp4enghttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Georgia Environmental Oral History CollectionWater conservation--Georgia--Altamaha RiverWater conservationAltamaha River (Ga.)Georgia--Altamaha RiverJames Holland interviewed by Betsy Bean, 24 September 2013Sound