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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4

"… are fished with baited traps or pots and the traps are dropped from a boat or “set.” Traps are attached by rope to a floating buoy to mark their…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation

"Trapping has always been popular in our area. Trapping was really quite time consuming and expensive compared to hunting animals."

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

"The dory in the foreground has wooden lobster traps on it, while the dory in the background has a trawling tub on it."

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Man Rats Out Brady Gang - Page 2 of 2

"Print. How "Trap" Was Sprung Revealed. Bangor Daily Commercial 13 October 1937, Evening: 1, 6. Print. Inside Story of the Brady Gang Reign of Terror."

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Historic Hallowell - Timeline of Cyclone

"Little Vigril White was trapped inside the store when this happening occurred. The stable that was occupied by Simmons! The Stearns had gotten…"

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

"… or fishing in very deep water, one line had two traps (doubles); but most of the time only single traps were on a rope and buoy (singletons)."

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

"… income (for lack of time to tend their lobster traps) and played the games. It was a very special time for the team and the Swan’s Island…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 4 of 5

"… heirs to fish, fowl, and hunt also to set otter traps without molestation.” In a 1684 deed that is foundational to the Pejepscot Proprietors…"

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Historic Hallowell - The Information Call Script

"… OUTTA HIS STORE, AND I NOTICED A LITTLE BOY TRAPPED INSIDE HIS STORE, AFTER THE CYCLONE CAME THERE WERE DOCTORS THERE, FROM THERE, THEY CARRIED…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…

"… with Wabanakis who canoed to the area to fish, trap, and hunt as they always had. Abraham’s son John recalled that during his boyhood Indians…"

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Historic Hallowell - The Cyclone of 1895

"A horse was trapped in the stable but later rescued. Cyclone, Cotton Mill, Hallowell, 1895Hubbard Free Library Half of the Cotton Mill roof was…"

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Skowhegan Community History - Early Settlement in Skowhegan

"… a trapper wanted company and someone to help him trap. Isaac decided to go so that he could make some money."

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 2 of 4

"… and other natural resources as they hunted, trapped, clammed and fished in the marsh. When European settlers arrived in the early 1600s they, too…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 2 of 6

"… of Land from the King to the Plymouth Colony to trap fur. Maine Historical Society But in Maine, as in much of Britain’s North American empire…"

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Life on a Tidal River - The Great Bangor Floods: 1902 and 1976

"The water rose so quickly that people were trapped in their cars, and many cars were ruined. Damages to personal property cost over two million…"

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

"A successful trap limit was enforced in 1984 that reduced the pressure on younger fishermen and the lobster fishery in general."

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Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Summary Notes

"People were trapped in their cars, cold and hungry. This storm is like the one that hit in 2008 it was almost the same, trees were covered in ice and…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 2 of 5

"Hunting wild game and trapping were also important jobs for daily survival. Berrying in the summer was an annually awaited event."

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

"It was not a strong wind or even a rough sea. Some men of Pine Point, including Harold, would haul their traps by starting at Prouts Neck and…"

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Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"… Catherine Filene Shouse, founder of the Wolf Trap, the National Park for the Performing Arts outside of Washington, DC, gave the company its first…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

"… engine was running, the winch turned and lobster traps could be hauled aboard. Except for small skiffs (punts), no other boat building has occurred…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"… are exposed outlines of a fish weir used for trapping fish and in the shell heaps of Winnocks Neck."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 3 of 4

"… and under the building, with access through a trap door in the floor. Imagine that casual an arrangement today! Larger deliveries came through the…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"… then going on to the woodlands for hunting and trapping. The old Indian trail extending up along the Androscoggin River through Dixfield, Mexico…"