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Description
This is a type of sardine catching weir, with small boats nearby for unloading. The fish were boated to canneries later.
The photo was taken in Passamaquoddy Bay near Eastport, ca. 1930.
About This Item
- Title: Catches for canneries, Eastport, ca. 1930
- Creator: Fred G. Milliken
- Creation Date: circa 1930
- Subject Date: circa 1930
- Location: Passamaquoddy Bay, Eastport, Washington County, ME
- Media: Photoprint
- Dimensions: 11 cm x 16 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 1670
- Collection: Atlantic Fisherman correspondence, photographs, and news articles
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Canneries--Maine
- Fish traps--Maine--Passamaquoddy Bay--Photographs
- Fishermen--Maine--Eastport--Photographs
- Fishing industry--Maine--Passamaquoddy Bay
- Fishing nets--Maine
- Sardine fisheries--Maine--Passamaquoddy Bay--Photographs
- Seining--Maine--Photographs
- Weirs--1920-1930--Photographs
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