Keywords: Traps
Item 18616
Lobster trap mill, Steep Falls, 1946
Contributed by: An individual through Steep Falls Library Date: circa 1940 Location: Standish Media: Photographic print
Item 79585
Wooden lobster traps, South Bristol, ca. 1978
Contributed by: South Bristol Historical Society Date: circa 1978 Location: South Bristol Media: Photographic print
Item 90188
Griffin property, Cliff Island Road, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Stephen H. Griffin Use: Dwelling & Store
Exhibit
Maine's ample woods historically provided numerous game animals and birds for hunters seeking food, fur, or hides. The promotion of hunting as tourism and concerns about conservation toward the end of the nineteenth century changed the nature of hunting in Maine.
Exhibit
Informal family photos often include family pets -- but formal, studio portraits and paintings also often feature one person and one pet, in formal attire and pose.
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4
"… are fished with baited traps or pots and the traps are dropped from a boat or “set.” Traps are attached by rope to a floating buoy to mark their…"
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation
"Trapping has always been popular in our area. Trapping was really quite time consuming and expensive compared to hunting animals."
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.
Story
My career as a wildlife biologist
by Ron Joseph
Rural Maine provided the foundation of a rewarding career as a wildlife biologist.
Lesson Plan
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12, Postsecondary
Content Area: Science & Engineering, Social Studies
This lesson presents an overview of the history of the fur trade in Maine with a focus on the 17th and 18th centuries, on how fashion influenced that trade, and how that trade impacted Indigenous peoples and the environment.
