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

These historic community boundaries are still respected, and many young fishermen might fish where family before him fished, but today anyone goes…

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

… Contributed bySwan's Island Educational Society Fishermen turned predominantly to lobstering, scalloping, and shrimping as the supply of fish such…

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation

Fishermen and women would use bamboo for the material to make fishing poles back then. The bamboo was really weak so it kept breaking, and people had…

Blue Hill, Maine - Welcome to the town of Blue Hill!

… the sheltered waters to the present day, farmers, fishermen, merchants, educators, artists, summer residents, and retirees have come to call Blue…

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Along the Waterfront

… byMaine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Fishermen aboard Herb Pick's motor boat, Portland, 1923Item Contributed byMaine Historical…

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.

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…

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…

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.

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…

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

… stations established in the 17th century by fishermen and fur traders were supplanted by more stable farming settlements.