Keywords: Mackerel fishing
Item 6000
Mackerel fleet, Boothbay Harbor, ca. 1894
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1894 Location: Boothbay Media: Photographic print
Item 14584
Contributed by: Davistown Museum Date: circa 1650 Media: Curved wood handle with a slate cutter
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
Sugar and Spice: Our Vintage Recipes
Sugar and Spice: Our Vintage Recipes showcases historic recipes, dating from the 18th century to the 1950s, like sweet treats, traditional favorites, promotional printings, medicinal concoctions, curious libations, and recipes that have fallen out of favor.
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Lobstering
"… of the major fishing times for cod, haddock or mackerel, lobsters were also caught. Walter Joyce with lobster, Swan's Island, ca."
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"Mackerel fishing could be done from any size of boat. Vessels fit out in early spring, fished for mackerel in southern waters, and returned around…"
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
Backup Captain
by Shannon & Asa Richards
Our family’s deep connections to the maritime and fishing communities
