At 10 years old he was notorious. Motoring along in the bay in a tiny skiff, Randy Skimmons ventured beyond his parents’ limits, got caught skippering along under the Manahawkin BayBridge and landed on the front page of The SandPaper for doing so. The son of fish business proprietor Ed Skimmons, Randy was on his way to being inexorably linked to the sea and its products. Early on, he pushed crabs in a wheelbarrow. At 14 he was delivering buckets of clams to detectives in Philadelphia.
After working for his father and in a brief reversal of roles, he eventually opened his own shop 16 years ago.
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