Maine Memory Network

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

"Today some lobster fishermen are selling lobsters from their homes. An ability to have a saltwater tank away from the source of the water has enabled…"

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

"… Thurlow, Bill Bayley and Don Googins Local Fishermen at Pine Point, Scarborough, 1932Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Scarborough’s…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 2 of 4

"… company owners and clam diggers, boaters and fishermen who claimed that dikes shut out the overflowing tides of the marshes, resulting in streams…"

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

"The current trap limit continues to be 475. There remains among the Swan's Island fishermen, a concern to keep the balance between a strong…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2

"For years, lobster fishermen knew that area of Stratton Island as the old wreck. This name was added to others around the island such as clam cove…"

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

"… and naturalists, and a prime territory for fishermen and hunters. X In 2000, a group of volunteers and representatives from town, state and…"

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

"… in 1984 that reduced the pressure on younger fishermen and the lobster fishery in general. The current trap limit continues to be 475."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders at Work

"These fishermen were mostly fishing for herring. During the 1980s Roger May of Swan’s Island used his airplane to help locate the fish."

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

"… waters around Swan’s provided a living for the fishermen, family members and other island citizens continued to use the land to grow vegetables and…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"… mackerel became profitable, and Swan’s Island fishermen adopted the jig hook. Mackerel fishing could be done from any size of boat."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"Foremost, of course, were lobsters, but other fishermen still pursued fin fish. If the island's seagoing tradition had diminished, the summer…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"Early fishermen set nets for salmon and haddock. Cod was caught on trawls, mostly for island consumption."

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

"… the wake of the sardine industry’s demise those fishermen who remained turned to the lobster, scallop, shellfish and urchin fishery."