Keywords: fish
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 86150
Fish House, Central Wharf, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Central Wharf Proprietors Use: Fish House
Item 86289
Fish House, Commercial Wharf, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Jones Real Estate Company Use: Fish House
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
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.
Site Page
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.
Site Page
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…
Story
Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall
Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.
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.
