Keywords: Drying Herring
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Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 3 of 4
"Draining and drying the herring on carts Frank Van Riper, photo X Step five: Inside the smokehouse The actual smoking operations were complex…"
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Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor
"The sardines canned there were really little herring, the same fish that provided the basis of the other mainstay fishery industry in the area…"
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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4
"… of the nineteenth century the in-shore fisheries, herring and lobster, scallops and clams, remained strong."
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII
"Joyce built a sardine factory for the herring that were plentiful at the time. Later industries included a cod liver oil plant, the smell of which is…"
