Keywords: Fish processing
Item 133
Fish processing, Eastport, ca. 1902
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1902 Location: Eastport Media: Photographic print
Item 12767
Women employees, Farnsworth Fish Cannery, Brooklin, 1920
Contributed by: An individual through Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society Date: 1920 Location: Brooklin Media: Photo transparency
Exhibit
Early Fish Canneries in Brooklin
By the 1900s, numerous fish canneries began operating in Center Harbor, located within the Brooklin community. For over thirty years, these plants were an important factor in the community.
Exhibit
Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Fish weir, Ball Hill Cove, Hampden, ca. 1832
"… page 47 of the journal and Martin describes the process of installing it and of fishing. He wrote that alewives ran first and as the weather warmed…"
Site Page
Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Salmon industry
"… was one of the employees in the first fish processing plants but the story she tells in this audio is about her life growing up on Swan’s Island…"
Story
Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall
Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.
Story
Catching live bait with Grandfather
by Randy Randall
We never bought live bait for fishing. Grandfather caught all the minnows and shiners we needed.
