|
|
Article: Fishing back when.(NF classics)
- Article from:
- National Fisherman
- Article date:
- June 1, 2009
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2009 Diversified Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
50 YEARS AGO
The harbor of the fishermen's town of New Harbor, Maine, is filled with fishing boats of various types: Novi, Friendship, Bremen, and other Maine builders' hulls, from dinghy to dragger. One of the Atlantic Coast's busiest fishing towns, its recorded history dates back to 1602. Several larger boats of 50 feet or longer are equipped with nets to drag for groundfish or seine for Atlantic Coast mackerel schools or for herring in the coves, notably Long Cove at Chamberlain; most of it is stop seining with very little purse seining. The majority of the town's other vessels belong to lobstermen.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
* Plans are afoot ...