Keywords: Sardine fishery
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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…"
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"Toft, John D., “Some Historical Data on the Maine Sardine Industry”, Maine Sardine Industry History."
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"… • New Lubec Memorial Library building completed • Connors Brothers plant (former Booth Fisheries Factory B) closes – last sardine plant in Lubec"
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Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 1 of 4
"… landscape was densely crowded with smokehouses, sardine canneries, lumber and coal businesses out on the wharves."
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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…"
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Edward O'Brien moves to Thomaston - 1850s
"In the 20th century, several draggers and sardine boats were built for New England fisheries, as well as an increasing number of pleasure vessels."
