Alex Earle, a fisherman on the Black Beauty, sorts lobster at the Boston Fish Pier on January 16, 2020.
Workers at Atlantic Coast Seafood unload and sort a haul at the Boston Fish Pier on Jan. 9, 2020. The Pier houses over a dozen fish processors and wholesalers handling everything from scallops to lobster.
Chris King of Orleans Seafood finishes unloading scallops for Red's Best at the Boston Fish Pier on Jan. 9, 2020.
A severed fish head lays on a coiled rope at the Boston Fish Pier on Jan. 9, 2020.
Top: Shane Walker, a worker at Maine Coast, sorts through a crate full of lobster on Jan. 9, 2020.
Bottom: A lobster claw catches a shaft of light after being packed away at Maine Coast on Jan. 9, 2020.
Juan Ramirez, a worker at Red's Best, loads emptied crates onto a delivery truck at the Boston Fish Pier on Jan. 9, 2020.
Fermin Rodriguez, an employee at Rocky Neck Fish, cuts into a tuna at the Boston Fish Pier on Jan. 9, 2020. Rodriguez has been in the fishing industry for over 20 years and said he couldn’t imagine doing anything else.
A flier hangs in the window of the now closed No Name restaurant. No Name, shuttered at the end of 2019, had been in business for over 100 years.
Frank Patania, treasurer at Ideal Seafood, in the doorway of one of Ideal's boats, Sammy Jo. “Nothing is the same,” Patania stated when asked how the fish pier has changed over the last few decades.
Fermin Rodriguez, an employee at Rocky Neck Fish, prepares a filet for packaging on Feb. 11, 2020.
Alex Earle washes the deck of the Black Beauty at the Boston Fish Pier after they unloaded their haul on Jan. 16, 2020.