Marnie Reed Crowell is a natural history writer with a masters degree in biology. Marnie's books include Greener Pastures: In Praise of Traditional Country Living (Funk & Wagnalls), Great Blue: Odyssey of a Heron (Times Books), Flycasting for Everyone (Stackpole), and The Heron Witch (Green Writers Press). Her articles appear in numerous magazines such as DownEast, Redbook, Reader's Digest, Working Waterfront, and Audubon.

Marsden Brewer has for the past two decades focused on figuring out how to make farming scallops work for Maine. He is a third-generation Maine fisherman and has been fishing all his life, whether it's what he calls low water urchining, scalloping, or offshore ground fishing, shrimping, and lobstering. A former member of the Department of Marine Resources Advisory Council, Marsden served as selectman for the town of Stonington for six years and so has his wife Donna. She is currently a Stonington selectman while running Red Barn Farm, their retail shop featuring scallops, lobsters, and their farm products. With his son, Bob, Marsden now farms sea scallops. See www.penbayfarmedscallops.com.