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Hauling a trap, 1958
Maine Folklife Center, Still Image

Photograph of two men, W. A. ('Cheever') Rogers and Jacque Weatherbee, hauling a lobster trap. South Freeport, Maine.

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Interview with Captain Frank Delano
Maine Folklife Center, Sound

Selection from an interview with Captain Frank Delano of Bucksport, Maine. In the selection, he discusses his experience as a fisherman on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland in the early 1900s (1917). Especially interesting for the description of food eaten by the men while on board the Banks fishing vessels.

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Interview with Clarence Harding
Maine Folklife Center, Sound

Selection from an interview with Clarence Harding, a lobster fisherman from the Mount Desert Island area. In the selection, Harding talks about the daily schedule of lobstering, the hard work necessary to succeed, and changes in type of bait used.

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Interview with Earnest Maloney
Maine Folklife Center, Sound

Selection from an interview with Ernest Maloney of Port Clyde, Maine, about lobstering in a Friendship Sloop. In the selection, Maloney describes a typical day on the sloop, living conditions aboard, oil clothes, and hauling traps.

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Interview with Stillman Griffin
Maine Folklife Center, Sound

Selection from an interview with Stillman Griffin about lobster fishing. In this selection, Griffin describes building his traps, getting the heads knitted, advantages of nylon rope for trap heads, and reasons for using square traps instead of round ones.

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Interview with Tim Staples
Maine Folklife Center, Sound

Selection from an interview with Tim Staples of Swan's Island, Maine, about lobster fishing. In the selection, Staples discusses what he likes about lobstering and the dangers faced by lobstermen.

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Inventory of Camp Supplies
Fogler Special Collections, Dataset

Handwritten list of inventory of camp supplies of Amadamast Fishing Club (Orono, ME)

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Joseph Butterfield petition regarding fisheries on the Penobscot River
Maine State Archives, Text

Petition of Joseph Butterfield regarding weirs set in the tidewaters of the Penobscot River, which hindered the efforts of Penobscot Indians and others to catch salmon shad.

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Journal of a Voyage from Cutler, Maine, to Grand Manan Bank
Fogler Special Collections, Text

Page from "Journal of a Voyage from Cutler [Me] to Grand Manan Bank in the Fishing Schooner Vigilant. . ." Journal writer includes notes on the weather, the number of fish caught each day by each man.

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Knitting a trap head
Maine Folklife Center, Still Image

Photograph of Charles Dodge of Friendship, Maine, knitting a head for a lobster trap. He has a wodden knitting needle in his right hand, and a wodden mesh board, used to space the knots, in his left hand.

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