Maine Memory Network

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 4 of 5

"… allowed Richard Wharton to purchase land and fisheries on Merrymeeting Bay but also reaffirmed the rights they retained: Nothing in this deed…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Edward O'Brien moves to Thomaston - 1850s

"… and sardine boats were built for New England fisheries, as well as an increasing number of pleasure vessels."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 3 of 4

"… in 1957 the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW) began a twenty-year process of acquiring the marsh."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 4 of 4

"… Fishing in Scarborough Most clam and lobster fisheries in Scarborough have been associated with Pine Point, and many Pine Point residents have been…"

Winter Harbor Historical Society

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Lobstering

"… the pressure on younger fishermen and the lobster fishery in general. The current trap limit continues to be 475."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 3 of 4

"Commission of Fisheries, anticipates what was printed yet almost one hundred years later. Words and photographs of Hugh French and his students in…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 1 of 4

"… public the heritage of this now-lost traditional fishery industry. This makes Lubec the last place in Maine with preserved elements of the one of…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 1 of 4

"… beaches and rocky ledges, has been a site for fisheries, clam digging, lobster fishing and recreational activities for centuries."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"Local fishermen moved quickly and easily from one fishery to another. They worked a combination of weirs, stop-seines, trawls and traps."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Peacock Canning Company and Booth Fisheries. Connor Brothers, the last of Lubec’s factories, closed its doors in September of 2001."

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… salmon aquaculture, sea urchin, scallop, lobster fisheries • New England Aquarium establishes Bay of Fundy Right Whale Research Field Station in…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"With the fishery and the trading, men were gone for long periods. So women ran the households. They cut and split firewood."

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…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Project Sources

"—(LI) O’Leary, W.M. Maine Sea Fisheries: The Rise and Fall of a Native Industry, 1830-1890, 1996. Rowe, W.H."

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"… of Numbers that want Land, and to carry on the Fishery, Humbly request your Excellency and Honours wou’d Please to grant your Petitioners and their…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4

"… is still done in much the same way as when the fishery began, with some modern technology to make it easier."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

"… responsible for coastal settlement Lumbering, fisheries, agriculture, shipbuilding, shipping and quarrying provided the livelihoods for most…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - V. Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry

"… the pressure on younger fishermen and the lobster fishery in general. The current trap limit continues to be 475."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"Shipbuilding, farming, fisheries and sawmills offered opportunities. The Nineteenth Century Seavey's Stage Coach and Four, Scarborough, ca."

Caribou Public Library

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