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Item 15605
Littleton Fish Hatchery, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum
Date: circa 1920
Location: Littleton
Media: Photographic print
Item 11981
Lawrence Plante with a fish he caught, c. 1920
Contributed by: Abel J. Morneault Memorial Library
Date: circa 1920
Location: Van Buren
Media: Photographic print
Item 17053
State Fish Hatchery, Caribou, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Caribou Public Library
Date: circa 1910
Location: Caribou
Media: Postcard
Tax Records Showing 3 of 60 View All
Item 86150
Item 86289
Fish House, Commercial Wharf, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Jones Real Estate Company
Use: Fish House
Item 86303
Exhibits Showing 3 of 54 View All
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Mainers began propagating fish to stock ponds and lakes in the mid 19th century. The state got into the business in the latter part of the century, first concentrating on Atlantic salmon, then moving into raising other species for stocking rivers, lakes, and ponds.
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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.
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Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
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Ira married a woman named Almeda and had at least two sons and one daughter. Ira Fish died in about 1870 at eighty years old.
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Fish weir, Ball Hill Cove, Hampden, ca. 1832
Fish weir, Ball Hill Cove, Hampden, ca. 1832 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description When John Martin…
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Lobstering
Two men in dories, Swan's Island, ca. 1930Item Contributed bySwan's Island Educational Society More recent pictures of lobster fishing show the…
My Maine Stories Showing 3 of 8 View All
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Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall
Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.
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Catching live bait with Grandfather
by Randy Randall
We never bought live bait for fishing. Grandfather caught all the minnows and shiners we needed.
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Langdon Burton and the Cold, Wet Tourists
by Phil Tedrick
A father and son have their vacation experience totally changed by an encounter with a fisherman