COMPL£T£ N£WS OF TH£ MAIN£ COMMER.CIAL. FISHERIES ... Vol. l, No. l
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JULY, 1946
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RUSS I A BUYS ICE LAN D'S FISH
.Thousands of live .Baby Lobsters to Go Into Maine Waters
Contracts For Part Of 1946 Iceland Fish Production
100 Coastal Areas Get 1946 Fourth Stage Crop Augusta - As part of the lobsterrearing and conservation program, Commissioner Richard E. Reed of the Department of Sea and Shore Fisheries, recently announced the list :.of coastal ateas scheduled to receive the 1946 production of fourth-stage lobsters from the rearing station at Boothbay Harbor. Reed stated that the total produc1:ion, estimated to run .several hundred thousand, will be distributed "impartially and fairly" to nearly 100 areas in waters of all the coastal eounties. With the increase in the number of lobstermen and the heavy demand for Maine lobsters in hotels and res- . taurants ·au over the country, the lobster-rearing program and conserv~tion measures take on new importance. • • The plantings of the young crustaceans will be based on the 1945 annual catch in each county and wherever possible will also be made ·in suitable areas that have never before received them. (Continued on Page 4>
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Belfast-Russia has agreed to buy about 30,000,000 pounds of Iceland's fish production for delivery by December 1, according to the Iceland Legation in Washington. In a telephone call to Maine Coast Fisherman, Representative Margaret Chase Smith, member of Congress from the Second Maine District, revealed that she had checked with the Iceland Legation on July 11 and they confirmed the sale. Iceland fish production, annually about 80,000,000 pounds according to Representative Smith, has made steady inroads on American markets and has caused concern to New England fisherman. Russia's purchase will represent a substantial portion of the 1946 production from Iceland, she said. American fish imports from Iceland in 1945 totalled 1,402,0Q0 founds. _ an increase of 10.000% since 1939. Russia will not purchase Iceland's frozen fish production because like other European countries she does not have the storage facilities to handle it. Russia will probably also buy herring meal and herring oil. The meal is used to supolement stock 1 feed and the oil is used industrially and in soaps and paints. Iceland herring catch which was 500,000,000 pounds. Iceland has sold 20,000,000 pounds of herring to France but was unable to sell to Belguim because of CContinued on Page 2)
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Jim Reilly, ·above right, of New Hi;ubor, owner and skipper of the seiner sitown below anchored at the mouth of Back Cove. Boat is powered with a Red Wing engine, Borys alongside a1·e loaded with twine used in making the recent big herring catch. Crew which made _the haul inclndes Ducky Reil;y. Phil Re lly, Albert Curtis and Donald ReiJly aU of ew Harbor.
REILLY MAKES 6,000 BUSHEL HERRING CATCH Nice Profit at 91 Cents a -Bushel Helps Relieve Poor Fishing Season
, Harbor. made the catch with a total I neer of Rockland, the Edward M. ! of three "stops," with the last "stop" I and Grace L. of Belfast and the Ne\vcastle--'-"Us fishermen down I netting only a few bushel. Joyce Marie and Surfman of Southhere have a streak of owl blood in Sam Morton and his crew, also of I west Harbor. our veins. While everyone is sleep- New Harbor, made some •·stops'' at Jim Reiny·s catch. however. is an • . ing. we are prowling around coves the same time. but claim that they ' exception to the general run around and inlets on the lookout for signs did not do as well as Reilly. With here so far. To date, this season has • • of 'Fire.' And when we spot a school herring bring about 90c per bushel, been very poor for the herring fish' of herring we work like heck to get the New Harbor fishermen have ermen generally with few catches / om~ 'stop 1:ets' out:· remarked Jim E?;OOd reason to s~ile despite the being made. By July 1 the sardine I Reilly of New Harbor as he talked generally poor fishmg that has been plants along the coast usually have . .i,. •. i' 'about his recent 6,000-bushel catch encountered this year. j 60% of their total pack, but this year -....,...,>.1.,._;i,,11,,w of herring. Some of the carriers that bought • they are very much behind schedule. Jim. with his crew of four, Carroll portions of this catch were the Royal i Herring fishilJg is as unpredictible . '·Ducky .. Reilly. Phil Reilly. Albert of Yarmouth. the Trident of Port- as our own Maine weather. No one , Curtis. and Donald Reilly all of New land. the Double Eagle and Buccan- : knows ,vhen the herring will strike ! 1 ): in, and as Jim Reilly expressed it, "Your guess made at Newcastle is Richard E. Duwors just as accurate as mine right here Augusta - The start of a fourat New Harbor." month study to find ways and means By Mary Ellen Chase The herring fisherman is not only of doubling the economic value of ~ly first :knowledge of lobster fishing was acquired so1ne fifty a nocturnal worker but must have Maine's clam industry, was recently ll l 'Id l . . . l b th . •a touch of the gambler in his makeannounced by Sea and Shore Fish- years ago \vhen I was a very sina c 11 , anc in a 1nnitec_, ut OI- up as well as a wealth of optimism. eries Commissioner Richard E. Reed. oughly delightful fashion. It came in the:- inner ,vaters of Blue Hill He has an inves~ment of thousands Reed said that Richard E. Duwors, Bav ·1nd thTough iny Uncle Henrv, who ·was not a lobster :6.shern1an of _dollars i~ ~us boats and ge~r. Ellsworth economist had been en<, ' • . which may sit idle for weeks while gaged tor this work which when by profession. Uncle Henry, as a 111atter of fact, had no profession .. he is waiting for a school of herring concluded "should form the basis for He was the veritable jack-of-all-frades and master of none. He ,vas ,-which may not come. V:,h_en he a long term management, propaga. . . . . does make some good "stops, 1t may tion and con$ervation program for a stout, very red-faced genial 1nan of sixty-five or thereabouts ,v1th •be his only income from herring for Legislative consideration:· Yen: blue eyes. who, because he professed a great zest for all 1nan- 1 the year. The project V:·ill be financed fron, ne1.' of life , decided to sink one lobster trap beneath the surface A school . of herring are beS t Maine Development Commission , spotted at night by the phosporent funds which arc earmarked for de- of Blue Hill Bay. \\'here that bay I within the spruce ~lats. Uncle Henry '· glow caused by their passage through Governor Horace Hildreth \'elopment of the fishing industry. fil_ls the small harbor of Blue Hill smoke? his clay pip.e while he rowed the water. It was aptly described by j B If t-I .. Reed said that Duv,:or·s analysis ·of Village. In my childhood Uncle the ~k1ff, and I sat m the stern. feel- one fisherman when he said, "Every e as . n a letter. recently writthe industry would include studies Henry's one lobster trap _ was the ing sure that our v~yage toget~er time they '-''igglc their tails they ten to :M ame C~ast Fisherman Govof development plans in 1-lassachu- only trap in that beautiful rnner har- ,vas one of the best thmgs of my life. strike fire., So when a fisherman erno~ H?race Hildreth endorsed the • d ee d / e,•en \\-·1th th e goo d c h ance O f sic • k - , says he has• struck fire. he means that d publication of the new coastal paper se tt s. ~ ·c·,1,• Yor·lc and the C!>nact1·an a bor, and Yery few 1obsters, in . province::. the present Maine laws, \Vere foolish enough to crawl inside ness once we arrived a t Uncle . ev_oted to salt-water news of the indiYidual to,vn regulations. joint after Uncle Henry's bait. Uncle Henry's solitary buoy and prepared I <Contmued on Page 2) Mame coast. town-state cooperation. latest pro- Henry. however. in that perennial for action. _r,- ·- ·- ·- - -·- - • - - , - "It is my belief,'' wrote the Govpagation techniques. the extent of optimism which characterized all his I often remember u n cle Henry, . . ernor, "that the Maine Coast Fisher◄ depletion of Maine. flats and means leisurely beha\·ior, rowed out every who departed this life many years 1 I~DEX 1 man can perform a great service for of re-stocking them. marketing and few days in his small skiff to haul ago. when daily I drive or walk the Boatbuilding page 19 those who obtain a living garnering 1 0U1er pertinent phases of the indus- up his trap: and not infrequently he 21:: miles from my home on Petit- i By Products page 10 - the products of .the sea and shore. try. asked me to accompany him on this ! l\'lanan Point to Pigeon ~ill Village. f Clamming page 23 "Sine~ th~ beginning, our comm_erBe said Duwors ,vould tackle the exciting and dangerous \·oyage. Al- • one of the most charmmg of the Coastal Fisheries page 12 c:.al fishmg mdustry has been an improblem from the standpoint of a though I was usually made very sick many fishing villages on the :i\faine ,= Sea & Shore Fisheries page 25 portant cog in the state's economy. I trained economist and that his study indeed by the bobbing and careening Coast, both in its natural setting and _ Life at Light Station page 30 " believe that it can become still more would be cold dollar and cents pro- of Uncle Henry·s craft at the time of i? the character of i!s fishermen who Lobstering page 4 important and we are now studying position instead of an academic one. hauli_ng up the t~ap, I ado~ed the live _and labor on ns rocky shores - Salt Water Highlights page 8 j plans to de:velop it to t~e utmost. 1 Technical news "If Duwors can find the answers to ·, relatively calm trip out and m; and, and m the waters beyond them. page 20 " "The Mame Coast Fisherman can the problem he will have rendered a as luck would hav_e it, we sometimes Pigeon H~l Village, below the hill play an imp~rtant role in this future (Continued on Page 22) . found . a co~operahve lobster er two (Contmued on Page 6) ~ - - -n- 0_ ,,:, (Contmued on Page 2J by Ivan FJye
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Shipyard _Urges Rockland Landings Dredging Proiect otal 2,2 0,00 or J e By Carroll T. Cooney, .Jr.
\\'aldoboro-Officials of the \Valdoboro Shipyard today emphatically expressed their opinion ,hat ·the Government should consider dredgin° the Medomak River from Hollis P;int to the head of the tide if this ii/\:en~t~~e~si;~~Jga~~=/\~\:~·; tw~nty years ago the Waldoboro rivd th O f 6 f t er '·as d re d ge d t O a ep ee
Rockland-As an indication of this porfs growing imJJOitance as the biggest fishing center in l\[aine, June landings reached 2.193.883 pounds with F. J. O"Hara & Sons Co. receivin 6 1.370,003 pounds and General Seafoods. Fisheries Di\·isJOn, pm·chasing 823.880. Redfish led the landings O"Hara I at mean low water. . recei\'ing 1.0'.H,455 and General .. 10 , Inasmuch as no fu~ther. atte:1t n I Seafoods. 520,000. Pollock came secth lS re- I ond. General Seafoods buying 122,has been paid to the~nYer spect _o,·er a long peno? of time. 'nud OOO. and O'Hara. 201.480. and_ silt washed back m t~e chan:1el The first scallops in quantity in until at present many sections of l.he . fi\'e years \\'ere landed by Capt. Art upper reaches hm·e less than 2 feet I thur Bain in the Muskerron when he • of water at mean low water. Thus i d t G,,. s . -d • so 1c 5. 173 poun s o enera 1 eaon an average !ugh h e many siz- f d • O"Hara bou ht a total of 534 able , essels are precluded from mak- I _00 s. . . g . ~ ing the town landing. The Shipyard r,ou~ds ft om s1~1 all boa: operators. is principally occupied in construct0 Hara landmgs foi the month " ino Yessels in excess of 50 tons bur- were: Large haddock. 14.621: scrod th~n. and delfrery of these boats m~rket cod. 12,1304: scrod cod, 2.343; often becomes depende!1t on high nuxed scrod. 6.260: pollock, 201,!80; • H courses or tide. j 1arge hake. 33,821: scrod h:,_ke. ::i20; cusk. 8.023; redfish. 1.021,--!;J:): dabs, Smaller craft at present are un- 11 _90 . . .. 1 12 ~is· tf . 1 ~73able to navigate the river at low •1. . • gr e~ =- 0 e. •1 • • ca 1• 11• , 1 , water; and conditions have reached I whiting: 9;.i; scallo~s. 53~: ,, . the ,oint that on low courses of tide i Gener al Seafoods lam,1,1"'s for the it isl almost impossible for any boat same pcri~d were:_ Re~fish. 520,00~; larger than a dory to cross certain cod. 50.000. hake. 2;.i.000. pollock, 12~, mud bal"S on the .'o-called 1\Iidd]e 000: haddock, 133,000: flounders. 22,Grouncl one mile and a half from 000: \\hiting, 7.500: scallops, 5,173. town. The remainder of tlwir month's total Shipyard ofllcials expressed the 1s made up of mix.ed p,roundfish .. f Jinion that unless ear!Y attention The Rockland fish_m g fleet which 0 }as paid to this problen1 the rc,;ult I h~s ?row_n ste?d1ly smcc a small beof ttic original dredging project gmnmg 111 1930 now numbers well would - be completely obliterated in• ?\'er 20 dr~ggcrs all closE lo 100 feet a few years· time: and shortly •lot ~n length and repl'l'sei~tm 6 a large on1v would construction of boats be 1!1\ c. tment 111 loc;i I c~ pi tal. seriously hampered in VTalrloboro, but the river itself would ·no longer <;erve any purpose whatsoever. , here originally it was responsible for the settlement of the town of Waldoboro. For more th::in one hundred years L, "\Valdoboro v, as onQ of the leading shipbuilding towns in the State of Portland-The dragger Andartc, • 1\-Taine. At one time it ranked in gross captained by Charle- Dexter brought tonnage output with such major dt- in more fish during June' than any Eric Zn:inkel's ,Jragger, the 1\lajor J. Casey, loafs along at 9 knots. She is powered with a Falrbauksics as New York Boston and Balli- other boat operatin, for the Midl\101·sc DJesel of 180-hol"sepower and has a fish hold capacity of 85,000 pounds. Under Captain Stanley .Ripley, rnore. Central Fish C:o. 1\iid-Central rcceivshe recenlly landed 200,000 J>ounds in four trips. She is slated to return to Cutler shortly to resume fishini:, The loss to the town and the sur- ed about 500.000 pounds of red fish operations from there. Photo courtesy Rockland Courier-Gazett.:> rounding community of its old-time during the month. a total twice their By Don O'Dolan industry becau ,c of danger to navi- 1 moi,thly ,.n <-«t~e. Cutler-Talking to Eric zw,nkel. His $65.000 beam trawler, the the consumer and the producer. gational facilities would be inexcusThe Fordham. captained by Henry J • ca~cy ,vh1·ch l1as bee11 H1· ~~ gr,,at \\'l11te ho1)e is organizaleading fish promoter in Cutler. is ""a3·01· in " • ~ able: and it would seem that the l'C- Gallc,nt. \va•' the June highliner for like taking ;;, shot of adrenelin. His working out of Portland. Rockland tion. His great de~:!.1air ;s 0.he lack of sponsibility for the maintenance of F. J O'Hara and Sons _of Port1and. 1 n·or for the progrPss of the Maine and Eastport since la::;t November. cooneration among the Maine fisher- open waterways lies with already ei- According to a company spokesman, coast fishery ls stimulativ~. is scheduled to return to Cutler men to further the need for more tablished Go\'ernment agencie-. to o·H;..ra rccci, cd approximately Cutler, Z,\·inkel feels, is the per- snortly for the first tin1.e since last selecth e fishing, more efficient trans- whom this matter has not vet been 450.000 pounds of rednsh and 125,000 feet fish harbor. It is \\ ithin ihree fall's gale. portation to get fish to the m.a rkets presented with sufiicient emphasis. pounds of mixed fish 111 June. hours of the fishing grounds. which During June. the Major J. Casey. in shorter time. Zwinkel feels that a "\Vhile boats can still ply this river. The Willard-Daggett Fish Comis just a small fraction of the time Iskippered by Captain Stanl~y ~ip- ) depe•1dable refrigerator-truck sys- and the Shipyard is producing large pany handled about 500.000 pounds from Rockland or Boston. It has a Icy, landed 200.000 pounds 111 four tern is the ans1'. er to the need in this draggers and fishing vessels of all of g1·ou!'diish during June. an avergood anchorage for. some 20 sea- trips to the fishing areas. The 70- area. kinds cne after another at pres1?nt age month accCJrding to John A. Tonworthy boats. And Zwinkcl is put- foot dragger is powered with a :1:i'airThe ,great fish potential of the without exp~ricncing parhcc.11.ir dif- nc.,son. president of the company. ting his money on Cutler·s progress. banks Morse 180 horsepov,:er Diesel areas near and around Cutler have ficulty. every effort should be made The Portland Fish Cor1pariy, with 'When he arrived in Cutler in 1935, which drives her p.t 9 knots. She has never been properly utilized. claims on the part of in,terested citizens to their fket of nine druggers, proceshe found it hard to get timber, l1ard a fish hold capacity of 85.000 pounds. Zwinkel. He feels that the develop- prevent further restrictions to navi- sed more fish than uverage during to get lumbeL So he used his own Her six-man crew work on shares ment of the port is inevitable be- gation in the Medomak Ri, er. June. crews to cut. erected his own saw- and have been doing fairly well cuase of its proximity to the fislung mill to process the boards. La:;;t No- lately. grounds :md its ideal harbor. vember's gales raised havoc with The ful°ure of Cutler fishing. sa,1s the Cutl?r wharf. Zwinkel drew his/ Zwinkel. depends 011 the local wat- Math iasport Herring own designs for a strong new :::true- Pr.,;, not on the Grand Banks. He beTHE HAVE FOR THE FISH~RM N ture and a set of buildings. now well licves an aggressi-:.•.=, :fleet 0 £ some I Boats Doing Better into completion. He plans to ha\'e a <::everal dozen lobster boats, maybe• B . ,. t F' H GOOD FOOD - GOOD LIQUOR - G OD ROON S • • • v• 0 It1,.; eBI' t•• hai son nmck-freeze plant and fil Ietmg twentv .,.'0 - f oo t t raw l crs, anc! a f e,, l\ir . tl 1 .., • V d 1-iac 11aspor oa s ave recen y equipment to handle 3.J 000 and later lar<~cr craft o~ t 11e ragger type landed 5 _000 1 ounds of fish at th 1 385 Main Street Rockland, .l\'\aine
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could \\ ork to tne good ad\·antage of Adleman wh~/rf here. Jonesporte~ ''not particularly anxious to sell her' brou~ht in 3,000 pounds. Roy and -~- - - - fish to England at present. Current Austrn Sp~agu~ got 2.000. Of Lil€ iish prices in England haYe declired fo:h bro1-:gnt i 1 by the Sprague due to strikes although England brother.;. 1.?00 p_cunds _were caught the exchange-rate difficulties, said need,; the fish. Iceland is not anxiQus by hand lme. mcludmg 54-110und Rcpr<'sentative Smith. to sen to a depressed irarkei halibut. The catch is being pickle Iceland production at one ime was _______ for shipment :.it the Adleman plant. confined la g('ly to salt fl h, b..it dur. . Some good herring catches h:1 c 159 and 188 Commercial Street in~ the war freezing plants were in- Gover or Believes been brou~ht in<: by ~he fleets of b~~j, stal1ed and Iceland sold frozen fillets (Continued fro:-, 1 Page 1) th~ American ~ardmC; and the Mal'AAINE PORT AND to England. I1 1940 Iceland ~ro- development by keeping our citizens 1ch1asport ~anntng Co: plants .. The duced 125.000 000 pounds of salt fish; along tl:e coast fully ad, iseri of the I catches,, ~a e bPen fc\\ and f a1 beonl • 3.000,000 pounds m 1945. Eng-1 Jat('::::t trends in the industry and by tween_ LOI most of the season, 1uut loland has since discontinued purchase pointing out how they can profit cal fishermen _ report that ~a:ge of froze fi h because :;he cle,-,ires to J by them. schools cf hernng are now stnkmg built up her own fishing industrv. ··The conscientious editor can win these waters. Complete Maritime, Industrial and She "ill continue to pur~!iase son;e I no greater reward than that of helpA change in the inspecting pe~frcsh fi 'h for a '\\ hile. according to ing his readers gain added prosper- sonnel has be€n made at the AmenFishermen's Suppiies Mar&aret Cha c S~it~. ity and happiness. I believe that this can _Sardme C<?rp., p1a 11 t. <?eo~ge An interesting sidelight to the philosophy will guide the Maine LoveJoy of McKmley 15 now fish mpresent problem is that Iceland is Coast Fisherman in the day~ ahead:· Spector replacmg Joe Hall who has Harvey- ells Marine Radio Te ephones been :-<>nt to a p]ant in Lubec.
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Capt. Arthur Bain's dragger, Muskegon, put into -the General Seafood plant at Rockland, Saturday, _June 15 with the first catch of scallops to be landed in the city in five years. The veteran skipper, who pioneered the scallop fleet out of Rockland 17 years ago, had 600 gallons which he termed a small catch. War conditions and the lack of a buyer in Rockland brought the end of the scallop fleet in Rockland and only the establishment of a plant by General Seafoods brought its revival last month. Bain said the largest catch he ever brought in amounted to 3,560 gallons which sold for 72 cents per gallon against the $5.85 per gallon received for this trip. The totals are something to make a man sit up and take notice. For the 3,560 gallons he received the total of $2,563.20 while the smaller catch of 600 gallons brought the tidy little sum of $3,510.00. The, Muskegon, which has been groundfishing and redfishing during the war years, carries a crew of 12 and takes about 8 days for the trip from Rockland to Georges Banks and return.
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Out of Rockland For June
96-Foot Silver Bay Now Building
Portland-The Silver Bay Inc., a syndicate headed by Harold Paulson of Portland, has a large steel trawler Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Com. pany, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. The Silver Bay will be 96 feet long and next to the Nautilus will probably be the largest trawler OJ?erating out of Portland. She will be able to handle 200,000 pounds of iced fish and is being built at an approximate cost of $180,000. She will be fitted with special deep -freeze equipment, oil-burning range and hot-water heating system, complete blower ventilation. She will carry a crew of 15 men and will Ca1>tain Arthur Bain of Rockland be able to stay at sea for 17 days if leans out the pilot house of the Mus- necessary. kegon as he brings her in to unload The Silver Bay's main engine is an Enterprise Diesel of 560 horseat Rockland. power. Her generator is a ListerLida and Dick is again fishing out of Blackstone 10 k. w. unit which deRockland after completing an eight- livers power for an RCA ship-today overhaul. shore telephone and a fathometer Fritz Scoog, Olaf Holmquist and built by Submarine Signal Co. The Hilton Young, all of Vinalhaven, are deck winch will be supplied by the fishing with Ames. New England Trawler Equipment The Lida and Dick ,.,,as hauled Company. out, caulked, painted and had all unMuch of the design work on the derwater fittings checked at Camden Silver Bay was done by John Alden. Shipbuilding and Marine Railway. She will be 96 ft. 6 in. long with a An extensive hull re-wiring job was J 22 ft. 6 in. beam and an 11 ft. 6 in. completed. ! draft. She carries 50,000 pounds of fish Paulson, who is· president and and is powered with a 100 horse- treasurer of the syndicate stated that power Mack Diesel. Other equipment the Silver Bay would be delivered includes Exide batteries and a Sub- by the Wisconsin shipbuilding firm Vinalhaven-Sporting a new paint marine Signal fathometer. in Oc;tober and acceptan::e would be job, Captain Roy Ames' dragger the made in Pcr-:;!:._--:'.:1.__
Capt. Roy Ames' Boat Lida and Dick Completes Overhaul
SMALL HOISTS COMPLETE WITH THEIR OWN ENCLOSED POWER . PLANT
Twin Launching to Rockland - The Helen Mae II, D'Arc, an O'Hara owned draggei·. by Captain Frank Ross of She was skippered for two trips by Mark General Seafood skippered Owls Head, is the high-line dragger Carl Reed of Owls Head and by out of Rockland for the month of Charles Carver of Rockland on the ,Opening at Rockland June. The Helen Mae II landed a third trip. Her total for three trips total of 290,390 pounds of mixed fish reached 264,950 pounds. She arrived Plants Open to Public at the F. J. O'Hara dock in four trips in port the last day of the month Inspection Thursday during June. with an estimated 105,000 pounds but
Rockland-General Seafoods Cor! poration will officially celebrate the opening of its two Rockland plants with a double launching and public tours of the shipyard and the , fish plant on Thursday, July 18. Rockland merchants, through the Chamber of Commerce, have taken official note of the occasion and are going all out in extending a welcome to the new firm which is adding greatly to the port's prominence in the fishing industry. Highlight of the celebration will be the launching of two 72-foot oyster draggers at the Shipyard Division which the corporation acquired :from Snow Shipyards, Inc., last January. The first dragger, the Greenport, named for Greenport, Lon'g Island, and christened by Mrs. J. C. Jensen will slide down the ways at 2: 30 p. m . The second, named for the town of Milford, Conn., and ;pon:;ored by Mrs. August McToggcJ.rt, wife of the plant manager at Bluepoints Inc., of Milford, will follow less than half an hour later. J. Lawrence Alphen, president of General Seafoods and the National Fisheries Institute, will be present Model 568. Originalfy designed for the fishing as well as Clarence Francis, president of General Foods, parent orfleet of the North Atlantic, this sturdy fittle hoist ganization of the fish processing concern and shipyard. Several distinghas many uses both ashore and afloat where uished guests will be on the speakelectric current is not readily available. ers platform at the yard, including Governor Horace Hildreth, Edward C. Moran, and Representative MarIt is powered by a single cylinder air-cooled gasogaret Chase Smith, if her duties will permit her leaving Washington. line engine, totally enclosed in a watertight base. The shipyard will "be thrown open The compact frame is ca r.efully sand-bla sted and to the public for the launching and for inspection of the extensive shippainted to withstand the action of salt water or building facilities before and after the launching. A buffet lunch will be spray. Line pulls of 450 lbs. are developed by served by the company in the plate shop just following the launching of t he 3 H.P. model. The 6 H.P. hoist will handle the second craft. up to 900 lbs. Fred C. Gatcombe, branch manager states that all are welcome to attend the launching and inspect the Other models can be furnished for lighter loads yard and that full provisions have beel'l. made for all who care to come. ct higher speeds. Your inquiry w ill receive our In addition to the launching activprompt attention. ities at the shipyard, the Fisheries Division filleting plant on Tillson A venue will be in full production and open for public inspe~~ion, ac WRITE cording to Francis P erry, manager of the plant. Captain Clyson Coffin's dragger the St. George will b e u nloading at the wharf that day along with two smaller craft. Visitor s. to the plant will be able to see in actual operation the various processes of scalTRAWLER EQUIPMENT CO. ing, filleting, packaging and quick freezing. Richard Feyler, plant .,... , Formena. anq Rodne:1- Feyler, chief 305- Eost~rn Avenue, Chelsea, Mass. [ buyer. :wxe made ready to conduct 1 broups through the plant and cx,:;;:;;;;:;;;;:;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;:;;;;:;:;:;;:;;;;;;;;;;;:;;;;;;;;;;;;:;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;::;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;:-;;J \ plain v :;.ritJ us operations. r
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Th e Hele n Mae II, highliner out of Rocklan d fo-r June, is skippered by Captain Frank Ross of Owl's Head. Built at th e Rockland B oat Shop she i s pow ered w ith a, Buda D iesel, has a capacity of 90,000 pounds and last y ea r landed 1,931,39'8 pounds. P hoto by R ockland Courier- Gazette.
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Crew members of the Helen Mae did not discharge until July so her II are Edward Childs, Charles Law- catch comes under the July figure. The Althea Joyce, with Captain ry, Charles W. Carver, and G.us Don Joyce of Rockport, was highLearned all of Rockland. liner in the General Seafoods flee t. Close on Capt. Ross' heels and a She landed 200,000 pounds 'in three strong contender is the Jeanne trips.
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"\Valdoboro--In a belated warning to the OP A. Clifford ·winchenbach. By Tony Butler st 87, re~ently sai~ l?b ers a_re n?w By American standards, the life of reflecting a 3000 ' mcrea~e 1 r:1 pnce I the Canadian lobsterman is rugged. , Augusta. ::.Vlc.-The lviaine lobster over what they sold for m his boy- Al tho h;ll .,, • b t l'ff of wa.s one of the principd subjects of h d 1 .ong ~ c • Y, 1 c.1n- ea en c 1 s co aays. -- • the Gaspe Peninsula and in the bestudy and discussion by 3ooo home \Vinchenbaclf assertecl 1.hat, in che 1foo-,-red harbors of Prince Edward economists at their national conven. . >=>-=> tion held in Clcyeland, Ohic. 1ast period shortly a.Her the assassmat10n Island. tl1e F 1~enc·l1-speaking fisher- • of Abraham Lincoln. lobsters were fnen do without many of the modern v.-eek. bringing 2c each. It ,vas a simple conve·11 ineres and luxuries familiar Througri the cooperation of the f h l d f t;' • matter to c_atch. a f ew , unc1re_ 0 to ·, P\'-' En!!landers. In man'-' remote Department of Sea an d Sh,ore -'- ,:-,n- th I • ~J O eries and the Mair:.c Developmc:11. em a day m any tie .oca nvers areas, wind-generators ·supply the Commission a shipment H lonslcrs but an excesSive supply-say 00 homes with electricity. Paved roads ,._ as sent to the cr,.-;,·cntio~ ;c r dis- lbs- would O\'erload th e .nan-:et arc uncommon. Housewives bake and a downward trend in prices their bread in outdoor oven!;l, and P lay and discussio,1 !J-ll'l)O:::;t.:s. • could be anticipated. • in most to\vns husky dogs are seen Sea and Shore C or.,r.1 ,:,s oner Richard E. Reed said that ch 2 -:!LOnopulling small cartloads cf household mists requested the lobsters as they Lohstern1en freight by the roadside. believed that "the famous Maine sea- 1 i But in recent years, there has been food is one ?f t~e b~st known a_nd I compensation for this frugal existpopular delicacies 1n the entire ence-cold cash. For today Canadian world." ,Oh'ltPr f'.fS lobstermen are making money. "It has got to the point that the ,.__ ...,~ ~.... ~~ .., According to Prescott Conley, girls from Idaho, Nevada and other president of Conley's Lobsters. Ltd .. remote interior states want ·,o know Blue Hill-Lobster pirates. salt- in St. Andrews. by far the largest I all there is to know aboc1t chi:, ~reat water outlaws of the Maine coast, dealer in lobsters in Canada, lobster- I seafood sensation of ours." Reed are causir:ig a loss in tak~ up to 5% men in the Gulf of the St. Lawrence 1 in Blue Hill Bay acc0rding t.o Seth are netting as high as 56,000 in the said. : Hodgkins and R:1lp'.1 Duffey veteran two months' open season. Conley, Blue Hill lobdermen. who with his brother.Ralph, ships Lobster fishermen claim the great- over 800,000 pounds of lobsters to Baby Lobsters I est part of their loss is in the sum- Canadian and U. S. markets each <Contiuued from Page l) mer from campers and vacationists month during the summer. said that "Young Smal ley'" basks in the sun near Cliffcrd L. Small's lobster Despite inadequate facilities for who pull their traps for individual Canad1·an lobsters are defin1·tely on 1 at Ca l's Beach. Extra claw has developed on pincer of lefi claw. Anheating water at the lobster rearing meals. There are also the profession- the i·ncreas'-''-· o lhe:: claw is beginni ng to develop just belo,v light spot on right cl~w. station in Boothbay. every effort is al pirates who are rarer but more H e attr·butes th's 1 1 encourag1·n·g s1· beinbo- made to maintain production effective when they do the job. They t ua t·10n t o h'is go v er n ment's conser • • Lincolnville - "I hop~ I can get I ever and that extra claw will be bigat a hie:h level. "With alterations fo t· 1 f 1 d "In . steal lobsters in large numbers and va 10n P an o c ose seasons. something for him-maybe 50c for ger too.·· th e st ation, for which no fu nd s are have even been kno,\·n in recent many coastal areas,'' declared Con- all the bait he's eaten up," said LifYoung Smalley is a one and a haii a...-ailable. we could st ep th is output months to cut bait balls for their ley. "May and June are the only ford L. Small of RFD 2 Lincolnville pound male chicken lobster with an up to more th an _a million." said own use. open season. In other parts of the as he admired Young Smalley. the extra claw growing out of the left Reed. 1 . . . . Because of the scarcity of lobsters coast August and September arc unique three-clawed chicken lobster claw and the beginnings of another The d1stnbut10n lists were rlra,._·n and the increased number of fisher- open season. Some sect10ns are open which occupies a special place in his claw grov..·ing out of t_he right one. ul:1 ,vit? the .h~lp of Fish and Wildlife men, more protection of different during both these periods; but for lobster-car at Cals Beach. Except for a small damaged spot on ~10log1st Leslie Scattenrno() Pla_nt- types is needed. saj.d Hodgkins. Pi- the most part the operation is one of "I've been lobstering and fishing 23 the right cla\v, the lobster :i.ppears rngs are scheduled for the rollowmg rates cause not only loss of .lobsters alternate open seasons. This gives years and this is the first time I've perfectly nor~11al in all other reareas: 1 but also loss of traps which float the lobsters plenty of opportunity to ever seen one o{ these. I've caught spects. York Count:v: Cape Ncddick Har-' away when improperly reset. They multiply and apparently they take all sorts of things-fish with two "Lobstering's not very good right bor. Boon Island Lecllte. PPrkins take lobsters without regard to advantage of it.'' tails and do·uble. fin::,. lobsters with now because they·re shedding, but Cove. Fishing Rocks. Little Fishing measure. using small lobsters and Vvhen asked if he thought the two new claws growmg out and so on, I look for it to pick up in another Rock. Stratten Island. but nothing to beat thic:. week. Clamming is going fine. I 1 seeders. Hodgkins estimates there is months' period too short, Conley reCumberland Countv : c,,,il P.'1cks. considerable loss in this respect in plied that he was in favor of leaving '·Was lobstering the v-;;:1er morn- just dug $9 worth of clams an hour Diamond Isl and Lede:es. Whitehead Blue Hill Bay. 1 the law '·just as it is." "Our lobsters ing off Mrs. Davis· summer cottage. ago.•· he added. Passage, Dic1mond Cove. Cheheag "If the population of New York are doing all right:' he said. Everybody knows where that is. I j Two of Small's six so:1s. Daniel I. Bar. Green Island Reef. Korth End., city doubled.'' said Bodkins, "and; Conley. whose huge new plant at started to plug this fellow. when-all, Small, a Navy veteran and Vernal R. Sanc1:v Point Lodges. Bibber Rocks. yo~ didn't double the police force. 1 St. Andrews holds 225.000 pounds of of a_ sudden I noticed ;hat fui:ny :3mall._ an A~my veteran. are lobste~Pound of Tea. Branning Ledge. Mare you'd have plenty of trouble would- lobsters rn 156 tanks. stated that a lookmg claw. So now Im keepmg mg with him. Another son, Lewis Point. North Ledges. n·t you?'' fleet of 10 ttl;cks. each plainly him in the car ou,t there_ unt_il, he 1 Small, als~ -~no- Army ,·eteran, has 0 a!1,'adahoc Countv: Secmin Island "Increas€ in the number of war- marked Conley s Lobsters. Ltd., sheds and then he 11 be b1,,ge1 chan 0 one carpenL11nb. North end. Five Islands Harh 'lr. dens is the next logical step ... • he brought the lobst~rs to . his pound] -Lincol n Couniv: Ebenecook HRr- ac,aed. from such collecting pomts as St. During the open seasons in May Mishawaka Sailing For bor Wood End Heron Islanrl South A 0 tl1 bl f -• th John . Shediac. Cape Tormentine. and and June. and August and SeptemLedges• • Farnu~ Point Chr:·_,h "" f ? er prto em _aci+nhg f et ~hroteven such far-away places as ber. the Conleys store up enough I 1 ' • ,. - ess10na 1 1oos ermen lS ' e ac C a . from . 01ne oast ea 00 Co\·e • Pemaquid Harbor Oar Io::lRnd t f h f. f th . Sliinn1gan and Caraquet on. the Bay lobsters to fill their orders for the . • • a 1o o peon 1e w o rap or .cir N. E. Pomt Ledges. Wolsgro\· er Is- own use catch a great number. They of Chal~ur, about 30~ miles from winter months. A 200 horsepower nockport-Maine Coast Sea Food la nd feel :-:omet:imes t'i.;:it these. men do not st - A nd1 e':vs: Boats brmgs one a nd Diesel engine furnishes the power for Con,oration has recently acquired Knox, Co unfr: Crnnberr:· Tc;fa,-,d. Pet checked and do not throw back a half nullion po~ nd s _of lobS t ers lights, water, and refrigeration. A the lobster smack Mishawaka. CapStone Point. Bailey Led<:?:f' 1~lh0nlr·· th~ small lobsters an<l the seeders. from collectmg pomts 111 weS t ern I cold storage shed with a capacity of tain John Baggs of Vinalhaven will Rock Hog Island. Green Is1a·"1 ~,.,,.,l Ronald Gr 2 v. also of Blue Hill. Nova Scotia yearly. . . . f 200.000 pounds of fresh lobster meat skipper her and she will operate Ledges. Zeohyr Ledges. r~M1,..,-i stnted the belief that more transFrom !he pla~t. al~n?s1de which is j is almost completed. The Conley along the Maine coast. Mrs. Baggs Cove. S outhwest LPdge. P-:ir',~- planting v:as in order and more lib - a Canad1an -Pac1fic s1dmg capable of family has been buying lo_bsters for and he!' son plan to go along with Ledge. ·wooden Ball Island . n0,..~ .. • (•ration <Jf fourth stages. To the best h,olding six ~-efrigerator_ cars, the lo~- • 5o yeaNc. ~ the Captain this summer. I sland. White Islands. Clam T o-1~0" of hi~ knowledge. no lobsters have s.ers are shipped by rail to the retail Frank Keal. leading lobster dealer The 50-foot Mishawaka can carry Inner Bav Ledges ..Tames anr1 ,v;110'-' been liberated in the Blue Hill Bav and restaurant trad~ ln all parts of in Eastport. corroborated Conley's 10.000 lobsters and has been a familL edgf'. Dumpling Islands. Bahbidge area so far this year. • Canada and the Umted S tates. The declaration of the plentifo! supply of iar figure in l'viaine waters for the Island Led,!!es. Pulnit Harbor. Nnrton I . longest regular hauls are to S anta Fe lobsters in Canadian waters by say- past 23 years. She has just been re• C on- ing that the lobstermen fishing off Island I--edges. Sr)auldi'ncr "' Islai _ 1 d. 1 . Old -time. regul.ar lobster veterans ancI Alb urqugue, N ew M exico. equipped at Camden with a new ·nt. Clam Ledge~. In,;ii·an , m Blue Hill this_ year, are H_obart h ' • ,, b • h Foggs P ol 1ey says s ippm,,, Y rai 1 as prove d the steep banks of Grand Manan Chrysler six-cylinder 80 horsepower ' " d G Duftey. • ,\·onderful.'' Island. Outer I_-edges. Soiith "'- ~ct •, _ ,~f • an Ch _.. eorge E R ldClark Bridges. sa t·1sf ac t ory, an d h e d oes no t see any were 'doing :)iesel engine. Job Island. G ilke~·s Harbor Brnad arue a ton. . ona Gray. '\Valter need for using air express. Rail • . \'Vood. Ralph Friend. Harry Conarv, C o\·e Le d fes. I slesboro Harbor. Seal A ~t;, 1 Ch t· G . ld R b' • shipments to U. S. are by Canadian 0 mson. Pacific and cross the St. Croix at Harbor. Robinson Rock in \Vest u,, '· a LO. era . P enobscot B ay. I Olaf Hooper. Al~ert Collms. A new- Vanceboro. lVIaine where the cars comer this year is John Howard. re Hancock roun{v: Clnssnm r,,.rle:e~. I cently discharcred from the ~ravv. are picked up by the Maine Central Northeast side of Pick0ring fo::land. . . . "' • and sped to the central distributing Whaleback. Two Bu<:h. Gree11 Island ' The maJonty of lobS t ers caught by point in Boston. There they are Ledge. Merchant H::irbor. M<irsh;:il I U~e~ me~ rre Osold to Gulls Peanssler broken do,,.;n into less-than -carload Cove. Head Harbor, Tnrrf'v Is]:>'7ds. l Ror heeBr st e. fccSats.o:1a ty nowdevcr lots and sent to buyers throughout on1no- on sen s a • F renc hh oro H ar b or. B ::irt1ett _ R.r - b a 1pt d ar er o "' the country. rows, Cow ;:ind C;:ilf Ledcze.". FlvP j o;om~wo~- thes~ men speculated on I Conley said he believed the com1ST I sland. Seal R ock. P arker Pomt • .Jed I the possibility of a closed. season bined supply -of 1-obsters from the TO~S - FOR Islands. Grant Rock. B ~rrv Co,•e. 'd • . th ·h dd' •• . • th j U S and Canada at present was not . Stave Isl and Harbor ~and Cove I unng e s e mg c1me LO give e • • . s h r H b L • cl • lobsters more chance to grow in cer-t enough to· fulfiU the demand. "We c ooc ic ar or. ong e ge. tain areas. could sell three for every one we BELLS CHOCKS . \\·a.shing ton County : Joy Bav. Pi _ _ _____ get,'' he said. "Because we buy in geon Hill Harbor. Bois Bubert Island The Fishet·man competition from American buyers, . LIGHTS OAR LOCKS th S ou end , Cape Split Harbor. Pop "Lord. give me grace to catch a fish 1we pay the same prices," said Conp l estone L edge, Foster Island Cove. So big that even I. t ley . "Our lobsters come from as fa r SHACKLES ANCHORS H og Island. Minx Island. When telling of it aft~r:ward away as the Magdalen Islands and &. . Will never need to li e... 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aho\·e on tl c dork at Ea<..port ar fill. ·n . s far \ e, a, Lo n"'elc . Ldt to right. Frank. ·eal, Harold M .Hoch, .fol n ent\,o ·t 1, \\:!.Her· Lan-, -·.---~ • • /' son, A. C. Heanss:er. George BiWng.;, • Federai govcrruncnt -..:vould have to Rnlph T 1ompson, Ho!i-s Fer~ason, ,'\"al!e1· Ca.Ider and \ 'illiam Coul y. L 0 ) S ter t;Olllpet_tlOil Allen Fifr:lcl and Linn.r Gr~.- ;.vho take more active steps if tl e. lobster hons of people lii·ing in the cc..:i1tral, ! . ,.-,as formerly associ2t2cl v it'.1 R. K. industry were to be prcser-..cd. He I soutlw1 n z-nd wcst~rn ::-tates h::-d culll tOUIJ1gtOl1 fl.:1 Barter ::1nd !lOW or,012.tes from? lob-• believes the Canadian goYcrnmcnt is th, cttcrl. a perma 1wnt tast2 for • 'o th Dy Tony B utl~r ste:· :,r.1ack. 1 ma~in? ~nore bte;-si,·~- stu~i'-'_:',. of .. 1 1an'ic seafood. Store ing1. m-According .o George In spite of foe fact that thC<t.! are j th cir fishmg a nd looS t e. mg situu,,or --j= ~~;:i Billing,. lobs~er bu:·cr. cornpE:tition many more fishermen this year ·.han th ar. we are in the United Sbtes. ~T al, w·10 has been in tJ,e :cea-food fr' 'I>' between the buyers in c:nd around last. the total take in this 2,r~a is They go so far as to plant buoys on l>usm s for 45 year::-, the la;;,t 14 m Stonington is k:scn and has caused probably almost half what it v:as th e scal! 0 P beds to ~elp the ~!'her- 1 ( , . E,stpcrt. and \\ ho wa~ gPncral manI~ the price in that section to run last year at this time. Price.;; arc ~en fi nd th,em. he said. It is lus be• '!€'1' of Ea~t Coast Fisheries and roughly -fh·c cents more than in Vi- running steadily about five cents un- lief that . tne C~ast _?uard . _P'.1trol 0 1,er::-tcd a fleet of 21 traw!er 0ut of l'alhavcn, Boothbay and Southwest der last year according to Billing::. could easily be gi\'en che adClltic:1al r-Jr;.:< • ..,,,,. ~ P~ 0 "ff'~ ":,_,. I:cston and ~ew York in Hl19 and Harbor. "Lobstermen as a v,holc arc just duty of fish patrols ~n~l fisll studies. i.,~_..,1:1/~a lf ,}itiUt f fi [l"U~:, 1G20, .;tatcd that u,· · .June he shipped 1 Prir.cipal buyer i:1 the: area is about getting by \:,:itl10ut i:n~king a Te:11por~ry _re~tr~ctlons .~.~ ·,he ~ll,.-,.- • (!" -R~r,;i "Ii" • !~ pou1ws of fa:h and lob::-ter out Ralph K. B;:rtcr who:::e competitors great deal of profit says Billmg:.;, sp~wnmg -!rou,1ds ?' 0 r lobs ••• s 311d U\.t; iJ er~CI\ '811.000 o.:: Eastport as again,t 675.000 pounds are L . G. Cnrtesi. George Richard- 1 He suggested that the State or fol fish _mioht help mcre~s~ ,he Sup 1n the s3me month last year. ply. This could be admm1stered by by T ony Butler the Coast Guard. B illings said . F:egarding a propC1s:tion to inDurin g the war. certain fishermen Eastport-"Fraak Neal. large-scale crease the duty on fish coming 1 1 enter ed the areas which had been impo1·ter and dealer in fish and lob - from Canada to the United Stat s, 1restricted for some time for gunnery sters. who pioneered with the fin.t Neal ::aid h belieYed that present I practices by the Navy and got big long-ra:1ge shipment of shellfish by lugh rrices arc indicative of the fact lobster catches- up to 900 pcunds air from Eastport last December 10 that the combined supplies from 1rew for 100 traps. he said. lVIonhcgan Islanders have t heir own law re- and who has utilized air transport Bnv ancl. Nova Scotia, New Brunsstricting areas around theii· island extensively to points as far away as wick and Newfoundland arc still net and when they trap ia these area~. the West coast ever since, said 1oday enough to satisfy the greatly extheir catch runs four times greater that "Airb0n:c freighting of lobsters 1 anded demand, especially on lobs., is h~re to stay." ters. 'Neal sa.d he,, as of the opinion than the a\'crage, he added . --~~re and at_ oth~r points along the th:.~ any c-dd1tio .al duty ...would A large number of Yeterans arc Mai::1e coac;t c.ir-sh1pn,ents have be- , D'-c, ely b 0 rassed on to th'- con going into l obstering, some of whom have invested their savings in new come routine:· declared Neal. "And s:1n1c r ,nth the possible net result boats and equipment and some cf a doze:1 or mere planes are winging of lower consumption. whom have gone into business wil!1 lnbstc1·s to the United States from "What we want." said 1 ·eal, ''i, a their fathers . Although at the pres- Canadh1n ports regularly ." normal price w~t!., maximu~n conent time. the boys are having rather '·The Amcrica:1 people want fresh su;"'.'lpt on and a continually incrca:.rough going, Billings said, the ma- sea-food. And the fresher it i:;:. the i.·g bus:ness ." jority of them are sticking to their more they eat-that's good business \Vhile at the Neal wharf, th;s rework in hope of better :imcs to ·come. for us,'' Neal said. Neal admitted porter watched the speedy unloading Arlo Ciomei of Ston ington. veteran there arc kinks still to be ironed out 01 the 60-i'.oot Canadian trawler M . S. of Iwo J ima and Okinawa, found in ai;,· rrcighting of sea food. he ex- Dream Boat irom St. Andrews. ·with on ly seven pounds of lobsters in his p lained that is difficult to ship by skipper Arthur Bro\\ n and Morris t r ap the other morning which he plane in summer because the planes Cline in tl c hold and Neal's expert claimed put h im a do Uar in, the hole had no ade,1uate cooling systems and flsh handler:; on t1 1 e \\ harf, tr.c last for the day. would not a.low the use of ice. of the 20.003-pound lracl of haddock F rank Robbins, w h o has spent a ·'Befol·e long \Ve expect to have i·olled away to 1'ortbn<l in a big lifetime at lobstering 11aid the cost of a patented container ,vith frcczmg truck exactly ne hour and forty materials and gear was pushing the unit attached which w ill hold up to mmutes mter the men started to lobstermen t o the l imit in their endeavour t o mak e a living from the 150 pounds of lobsters and keep them -.vork. 1 ·eal i::: proud of his "producbusin ess. L ath, now selling for $22 at set temperature. Bu t on ou r next • tlon 1 ne·• and the fsh handlers who He belie--es that ·,he per thousand. u sed to be $5. H eading r u n to Les Angeles we are going to operate it. mobile crane which lifts the barrels now is $2.60 p er ball compa r ed to try and experiment. t h e old price -of $1.50. B a it n ow vd "You sec, it takes abo u t two hours of fish fro~,1 tbc deck_ of the wharf to ued at $1.25 used t o be 75c. "In spite to pack a plane-load of three t ons the tr uck is a i,rcat hme sa,·er. of these obstacles," stated R obbins, of l obsters and ordinarily w h ile th ey Neal owns an ice -house with a "my son Harold who i s 23 year s ol d, ar e s itt ing ar oun d they ge t warm. capacity of 2.200 pounds and has is not h esitating in fo llow ing in the Th is ti me w e are going to put each lobster tanks holding 15,000 pou nds fo ot step s of his father." H a rold w ill 15-in ch square in sulated conta iner a nd plans soon to expand this departsupplement his l obste r ing by fishing. in the cooler as soon as it is p a cked . ment to a capaci ty of 50,000 pou n ds. Ch a rles F . Coombs, one of the old est lobster men in Stonington, said, W_h en a ll th e lobs~ers are packed. w_e I World War II ve terans w oriting fo r " We are having a poor y e ar .'' Many will l eave t hem m the cooler until I Neal in Eastpo rt ar e John Wentnew comers and boys fro m ov erseas they are thorou ghly chilled . Th en I worth w h o sp ent 19 m onths overseas "EVVIE" COL \VELL AND WAGGLES K. are staying in lobstering only be- \~e will rus~ them by truck to the Iw ith t he 43d Infantry Division, 103d cause of the big investments they airfie ld a mile a w ay, load them on R egt . in t he Solomon Islands· Walter the plan e and the pilot will take her Lank. w h o spent 9 months in' Hawaii , ve'd like you to n1eet Everett H. Colwell of South Goulds- have made, he said. • up to the right altitude . We think and Japan w ith 1298 Combat Engi- . • boro and his dog \Vaggles K. Evvie Colwell, a native of l aine, l F r an k Sawyer, w h o h as been lob - the system wi ll work." neers; and Ralph Thompson, w h o ster ing for 52 year s, says that it will ,vas born in 11illbridge_and has lived in South Gouldsboro for be easier t o estimate how good th e Neal is optimistic about the future . was 20 months in F rance, G ermany I year has been after the shedding sea- market for lobsters and expressed an d Belgium with the 476th A mbuthe last 32 years. son is over. H e look s fo r an increase the belief that dur ing the war mil- lance Compa ny . in t h e fall. George Gross J r., Navy vet, is now As a deep-sea fisherman, skipper of sight-seeing boats and lobsterin g with his father and plans ANDERSON A. small yachts, Everett has been around salt-,vater all his life and t o enter the U n iv ersity of Maine t his Grey Marine Motors fall. -knows the Coast like the inside of his pocket. Pearl Billings, Stonington A rmy Johnson Outboard Motors vet who saw serv ice in England, Fisherman's Supplies He· l,::iows lobsters too1 Today he is the Eastern. Buyer for Italy, France and G er m an y h as no o ubt in his min d that h e is going Tel. 464 Camden, Maine Maine Coast Sea Food Corporation and operates our lobster dinto lobster ing. "I w ouldn 't t h ink of :::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::::~pound at Sorrento. Working with him to get lobsters all through doing an y thing else," he said. Bill- ::::::::: :: : ::: :: :::: :::::::::::::: . ings is t he son of Almon B illings of the Frenchman Bay area are Ernest Rice of Birch Harbor and Stonington_.
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Pigeon Hill which bears its name, is situated at the head of Pigeon Cove, an arm of the sea extending northward from Petit-Manan Light and on the somewhat perilous country road which leads southward between the towns of Steuben and Millbridge. It is a tiny village of not more than a dozen neatry kept homes. Its high shores are piled ·with lobster traps and brightly painted buoys; its harbor waters give anchorage to the stout fishing boats of its people. There are flowers all summer in its small gardens, dahlias, sweetpeas, nasturtiums. and petunias. Perhaps, indeed, the first impression which one gathers from Pigeon Hill is that of color: the blue water of its harbor on a fair day, the bright hues of its lobster buoys piled on green banks and gray rocks and the vivid tints of its garden flowers together with the pinks and purples of wild roses and beach peas. There are good smells, too, in Pigeon Hill if, like me, one likes the smells of the fishing profession, which mingle with t)1e • smells of high or of low tide and with the enticing odors coming from the Pigeon Hill kitchen stoves.
tlo·e:ttr ct a I ~OMPL£T£ H£WS OF TH£ MAIN£ t;OMMERCIAI. FISH£RleS
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John W. Keeshan, Adv. Mgr.
C. Owen Smith, Editor
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Our Axe Newspapers are always talking about how independent and impartial they are. Iany ti1nes they say this because they do not kno\v what they are or what they advocate. It is easy to be impartial if you do not care about anything. There is nothing independent or in1partial about this paper. We are not independent because ,ve rely on the fishern1en and the people engaged in salt-,vater activities along the Maine coast for support. vVe are not i1npartial because we believe in this area and ,vant to see it prosper. The fishing business in all its ran1ifica~ions, the production of by-products and boat building are industries ,vhich are natural to the coast and belong here. \Ve ,vant to see these natural industries prosper and ,vill do all ,ve can to publicize and promote the1n. •
In spite of the fact that today there is an unprecedented demand for the products of the sea, the fishing industry as a ,vhole is faced ,vith difficult long-range proble.n1s ,vhich can only be 1net by concerted action. Through these pages, those ,vho arc interested can keep abreast of current h'ade ne,vs along the coast. Our colu1nns are open to the expression of individual views and the entangling probleins which ha1nper the full development of natural coastal indush·ies. If you don't like the paper, tell us. If you do, tell your friends and our advertisers. - ,ve. have an axe to grind, and ,ve are going to grind it!
HEIGHT HEIGHT LOW HIGH P.M. A.M. P.M. A.M. P.M. A.M. A.::W. P.M. -0.4 +o.6 16 10.0 8.7 6:33 6:39 12:08 12:42 -0.4 +o.6 17 7: 13 7: 23 12:48 1:23 10.0 8.9 -0.4 +o.5 18 7:55 8:08 1:30 2:04 9.9 9.0 -0.2 +o.4 19 2:15 2:47 8:39 8:57 9.8 9.2 -0.1 +o.3 20 9: 25 9: 51 3:-04 3: 35 9.5 9.3 21 10:17 10:48 3:56 4:27 9.3 9.6 +0.2 ,+0.2 0.0 22 4:54 5:24 9.1 9.8 .11: 10 11: 49 +0.2 23 12:08 +o.3 5:55 6:23 8.9 0.1 -0.2 +0.2 24 6:59 7:23 12:51 1:06 8.9 10.4 -0.4 0.0 25 8:00 8:23 1:53 2:06 9.0 10.8 -1.0 -0.2 26 9: 04 9: 23 2:52 3:04 9.3 11.I -1.3 -0.4 27 10: 02 10: 19 4:00 9.6 11.3 3:50 -1.5 -0.6 28 10: 57 11: 12 9.8 11.4 4:44 4:54 -0.7 -1.6 29 11:49 10.0 5:36 5:46 -1.5 -0.6 30 12.02 12: 37 11.3 10.0 6:24 6:37 -1.3 -0.4 31 12:52 1:26 7: 11 7:27 11.0 9.9 AUGUST 1 1: 42 2: 13 10.5 9.8 7: 57 8: 17 -0.9 -0.1 2 2: 30 3: oo 9.9 9.5 8: 44 9.08 -o.4 +o.3 3 3: 18 3: 48 9.3 9.2 9: 31 10: 01 + 0.2 +o.6 4 4: 10 4: 39 8.7 9.0 10: 21 10: 56 + 0.7 +1.0 5 5:04 5:30 8.2 8.8 11:12 11:53 + 1.1 +1.1 6 6:01 6:26 7.8 8.7 12:05 +1.5 7 7:00 7:19 7.7 8.8 12:50 12:59 + 1.2 +1.6 8 7:57 8:10 7.7 8.9 1:45 1:50 + 1.0 +1.6 9 8: 51 8: 58 7.8 9.2 2: 36 2: 41 0.8 + 1.5 10 9: 37 9: 43 8.1 9.5 3: 23 3: 27 f5 + 1.3 11 10: 19 10: 25 8.4 9.8 4: 07 4: 11 + u.l .+ 1.0 12 10:49 11:05 8.7 10.1 4:46 4:53 -0.2 0.0 13 11: 37 11:46 9.1 10.3 5.26 5: 34 -o.5 +o.3 14 12: 14 10.4 6: 05 6.16 -0.7 0.0 15 12: 27 12: 54 10.4 9.6 6: 45 7: 00 -0.7 -0.2 16 1:09 1:35 10.3 9.8 7:26 7:45 -0.7 -0.4 Daily tidai times at Boston. For Daylight Saving Time, add 1 hour. To find time of high water at following places, add or subtract the minutes as indicated, to or from time given above. Minutes Rise Feet Bangor -0.10 13.1 Bar Harbor -0.35 10.5 Bath +0.55 6.4 Boothbay Harbor -0.25 8.8 Calais 0.00 20.0 Eastport -0.30 18.2 Jonesport ., -0.40 11.5 Machiasport -0.35 13.0 Monhegan Island -0.35 9.3 Old Orchard Beach -0.15 8.8 Portland -0.15 8.9 Rockland -0.30 9.7 Southwest Harbor, Mt. Desert Island c-().40 10.3 Thomaston -0.15 9.3 Vinalhaven -0.35 9.4 Waldoboro -0.05 10.0 Wiscasset -0.09 9.8 Yarmouth -0.20 9.2 JULY
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According to my good friends, Capt. Earle Mitchell arrd his wife Theresa, several generations of fishermen have dropped their traps and floated their buoys in the waters beyond Pigeon Cove, men bearing good, study, honest Maine coast names, Leighton, Pinkham, Strout, Huckins, Phinney, Curtis, and Mitchell, and others of past years. For many years, too, Mr. Walter Tracy. has run his "L ittle Store" there, his small lawn bright with incomparable dahlias, and his irpmaculate, well filled shelves a boon both to the fishermen's families and to those of us in neighboring houses as well. In the past two summers Mrs. Nancy Handy, Mr. "Tracy's sister-in-law, 1 has "helped him out" as store-keeper. and her quiet, generous philosophy I 0f life and living contributes quite as much to her customers as do the I groceries which she dispenses far and wide. In the winter months in their Bangor home Walter apd Nancy spend their evenings knittmg bait-bags (last winter they made 600!) against the summer demand. j and fashioning hundreds of tiny, The Fil-st Lobster Trap "I am going to set it for lobster clam-baskets a nd brightly-painted To the Maine Coast Fisherman: tonight," he said. lobS t er buoys, which each year go I received your letter o. k. I will "Set a chicken coop for lobster!" to delight th e hearts of children a nd introduce myself to you. I live on Then they laughed. "When you going , grown-ups alike in many a st ate far Little North Yarmouth Island with to set it?" they said. Thereafter I from Maine. my daughter and Leslie Darling and many jokes. This not being a good summer for my post office address is Cundys Then he put a string of pogies in lobstering, at least in these parts, Harbor. the middle, shout the door and set after two seasons of plenty, Capt. I am 86 years old. I go in my row- it. . Mitchell has hauled up his traps and ed skiff alone and tend 20 traps in The next morning the people all is even now preparing for ~nether the summer. gathered to see him haul the chicand, let us hope, better season. Capt. r can see like a hawk and I never ken coop. They took a dory and went Mitchell in good times sets some 175 had a pair of glasses on my eyes off. They hauled it up and it was traps, marked by his orange and yet. just as full of big lobsters as it black buoys; and he recalls the days Now I am going to write you a would hold. It took two men to get not long ago when he found up to true story. it in the dory. fourteen lobsters in each of sever~l I They used to catch lobsters in They took it ashore and the people 0 ~ them •. A summer fisherman m hoop nets. They put their bait in clapped their hands and swung their Pigeon Hill for many yea~s, he now the middle . .of the hoop and waited hats in the air and gave three cnccrs stays throughm1t the wmter also, I for the lobsters. My grandfather for Captain Sinnett. using his wife's spotl_ess kitchen on Captain James Sinnett on Bailey'~ It was just like the time when gold col_d d~ys to frame ~s traps and to Island got an idea in his head 1f the was qiscovered at Sutter's Mill in kmt his trap-heads m warmth and lobsters would go after the bait 1n California. The people came from comfort. the hoop nets, why wouldn't they go everywhere. Lobstering is not an easy life. The into a trap? So he went to work. Then they went to building traps first light of dawn sees the boats unHe got some bo"Ys and commenced. and knitting good heads and e\'eryderway from March until the ice sets Then the neighbors around said, body had money. into the cove in early December. A "What you building, Captain ~inSo Good Bye and will write to Southeast gale too often takes its nett, a chicken coop?" you again about the lobster busidiscouraging toll of gear, one of last J He said nothing but kept on. He ness. Hoping to get your paper soon, November claiming all but five traps put in the ballast. Cut a head out of I am out of Capt. Mitchell's 120. But the an old mackerel net, laced it in. Put Yours truly, fisherman is a contented gambler on in the hoop and got it ready to set. Walter S. Sinnett wind and sea, and if one can judge "What are you going to do with Cundys Harbor, I\Ie. from the optimism and friendliness it?" the neighbors said. Star Route, Good bye. of the men and women of Pigeon Hill, such a life has its compensasometimes as far- out as Mt. Desert tions and its pleasures. At least I Stonington Ha ers Rock near the fishing grounds of the never sit in the tidy house.of Theresa Find Gea r Scarce big draggers. In the afternoon the Mitchell and of her neighbor and hakers bring their catches in to sell. sister-in-law, Flossie Curtis, without Stonington-In late June or early r Burnham and Morrill of Portlanq. being made aware of a vast content- July the season gets underway. Some has a packing plant in Stonington ment and a fine pleasure in "taking I fiesherman makes a set and brings in and another in Vinalhaven. Grimes things as they come". a good catch. It doesn't take long in Vinalhaven is also another market Pigeon Hill is a friendly place and for the report to spread and almost for these fish. There is also a packing its fishermen ahvays ready with a overnight the small craft in the har- plant in Southwest Harbor which wave of their hands as they work bor blossom out with marker bouys, handles hake. along_ the shore among their t_r3:ps. long bamboo poles with fla~s bf ~ed J Daniel Clarke, manager of the One 1s .always con~dent ?f willmg or bl~e bandana handkerchiefs wi:h Burnham ~nd Morrill plant at Stongenerosity, of help m a pmch from a weight attached and somewh~re ington stated recently that their !hese _men "who go d~wn to_ the sea along the pole a ~ve-gallon gasolme packers had flaked 50,000 pounds of m slu~,S· who do bus1~ess. 1n great can lashed on to give bouyancy. The hake that day and cut 800 bushels of \~aters . Th~y and their w~ves have markers sho:v the fisherman ,vhere herring, an average day's work for given me mnumerable kmdnesses, he has set his ~rawl when he comes the 125 packers employed there. and I ~m gl~d of the chance to thank back over the lme to haul. The average catch is between 4 the~ m this ~rst number of The Along with the markers go tubs and 6.000 pounds and the hakers are :r..fame CoaSt Fisherman a-qd to ten- and tubs of baited trawl. This year getting 3½ cents per pound for the der them my deep respect a nd ad- trawl gear is a scarce commodity, round hake. One man recently made miration. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ but somehow the fishermen find it, $212 for one day's work. But it's I at what price only the buyer and the feast or famine and not much seller know . They must ha,·e it, for gra,·y. \Ve want to thafk the various h h t d h b · • f or t e season is s or an t en usmess "It's rugged "'Ork," says ex-sercon t n 'b ut ors t o thi s fl rs t issue .. geant Steve Robbins, home after their help and encouragement. In is over for the vear. addition, the fishermen and people Stonington, Swans Island, Vinal- three and a half years in the Pacific along the coast everywhere we haven, South,vest Harbor and many area. have been, have helped immeasur- other places send out their fleets. "You can say that again," adds his abley with suggestions and en- They leave the harbor long before partner. Any fisherman who has thusiasm. We are grateful and will dawn. usually about 2: 30 a. m., two ever tried haking will agree with do our best to give you a paper men in a 26 to 30-foot boat. They them. There is gold in the ocean, both constructive and enjoyable. head for open waters and early but you have to be a good fisherman - E d. 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Augusta-Sea a nd Shore Fisheries by Capt. John 1V. lUclnnis, Saturday Statistician, L ev,;is Cates said today Cove C utler-Eastern Maine fishermen, The need for immediate action. it that re -organization of the departI suppose most seals are classed as h ave requested Senator Oscar Dun - Iis claimed, was recently highlighted ment's statistical set-up for closer dumb animals. They can·t speak; b ar of Machias to present a bill at by the wildcat strike of baggage cooperation with the Federal Fish they bear fur; and they swim around the present legislature creating a fish handlers in New York. During the and Wildlife S ervice had been com-1 in the water all day long. industry deoartmcnt for the State of strike 400 cars of food products re - pleted . B t the l\Ia ' e 1s are no t d um b · · ·" • D f • d l d d f fl d Th I u 111 sea Ma1?e s1m1lar to its ep~rtment_ o mame un_ oa e ·or ve_ ays. e The activities of Cates and Arthur animals-not a bit of. it. They ar-:? A griculture and requestmg assist, Iloss to Mame fishermen, m the des- McKov,;n of Boothbay Harbor, Fish expensive thieves; and smart operaance in the marketing of seafood. truction of seafood is estimated at and Wildlife statistician, will be tors! The reouest is based on the con- , $150.C00, mostly i.n lobsters. It was pooled to obtain more comprehentention that the seafood industry is J als_o stated that a department ~hould j sive data on fish landings, prices and l\Iaybe you don't realize it, but the one of the larcrest in the State and exist to back up the fisherman s edu- other phases of the industry. seals along the Maine coast cost you that the Jack ~f proper transporta- 1 cational school for wh_ich $20,000 has Sea and Shore F"she . .. •_ money. The seals steal fish from the 1 d b t d ~ i •• nes w 111 con fi h • Th . . fi • tion and coordination has seriously area y een appropna e . tinue to publish a monthly re ort s _-weirs. ey rum expensive i sninjured the successful marketing of Among the general problems fac- and the department's figures wili al-1 weir P~~kets. They b~eak up ~cnools this essential product. ing the fishermen is the lack of so be incorporated in the ·Fish and of heirmg a nd con,,equentlJ !ake The Eastern Maine Fish Industry proper supen·ision in the shipping Wildlife Service reports-. Cates and money out of th e pockets _01 fisne~Committee is giving the request full of seafoods, it is c].aimed. Lack of McKown will work in close coper- men a nd workers whose ' 111 :.:ome_ 13 support. assistance and advice concerning ation covering the entire coast from dependent on the amount of herrmg It was pointed out that there ex- some of the fish industry's working Kittery to Calais and they will be j caught. ists no State organization with au- problems and no central neutral assisted by the department's warTh~re have been many i.imes when thority for 0 i-ving broad aid to fish- agency to work out proper trans- den force. , a weir would have been full of fish €rmen and help them meet the mar- portation facilities for marketing Cates said that an effort was be - •but the seals came along and either keting problems which are troubling I products are also drawbacks at pres(Cont. bottom of next column) broke up the school or sto,·e in the the industry. Sponsors of the re- '.;:.!!. • - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - weir-pockets. quest feel that the present organizaThe fishermen state that. as it now could lend its assistance. Vvhy. e,:en the salmcn fishermen in tion of Sea and Shore Fisheries. stands, it is an "every man for himFishermen here feel that the fish John"'· Mcinnis of Saturday Cove Bangor haYe a justifiable kick while vital to the State, is dedicated self' system producing chaotic con-1 industry is so diversified and has h:1s been a fishcrm:!!l all his life. His to the ta,,k of conservation and plan- ditions. such far-flung operations that an againt the seals. They "\\·onder why present weir-fishing· is a full-time there aren't so many salmon around ning, and if gh-en the additional serThis condition. they believe. would I effective organization within the injob andt he spe!lds man)· hours day as there used to be. vice of assisting in marketing prob- oe largely remedied if an outside in- I dusiry to handle these problems and night , ·atching- for schools of I'll tell you why. lems would obstruct its own effort. terested party, such as the State, would not be possible. herring at his weir ai ~orthport. The seals eat them. I've seen seals like to haYe seals around on general spot a salmon and a few seconds principles, I guess. later make one lunge for him. Another dive-another lunge-and -~hey Anyway, we lost the case. are on top of that salmon and that's In fact, a summer resiclent on one the end of that one. People say a seal of the islands near l\lt. Desert suecan't swim as fast as a salmon. It ceeded in getting a two-mile protecjust isn't so. I\•e seen it happen tive zone for seals around Lhat island. many times. She had a lawyer in the case. We Today the ledges along the Coast didn't! show more signs of seals than ever If the seals sen·ed ~ 0 1 e useful before. 'What good do they do us? purpose such as 1.he s 'al i•1 rlu,;try in People say it is just nice -o have the PribHoff Isla'1ct~ in Ala,ka, a "'eals around. They like to he.'.Ir ,hem ca:;e could Le made 01.... for them. 1 bark and so on. 'Ihat's fine! The only But l\1aine se ..ils co "Ot. Let's leave trouolc is they rlo a lot of stealing the seal i, 1 ctu~tr,. to A' Jrn a ct tend along with ·,hat barkin=. to our own k ittin, \':hich is, o .,afe1 I once told Mr. Bakc-r of the Fi:;:, g· ard and ''l ui •. 1 tne l crr:ng in;;rnd \VilcUif<.' Service that ;;his r rob- c try in ::.\IJ"c11 .e. lem is exactly r~c same a::; if <' thief If th ::1 tl1C' C ast broke in a 1d • tol.:> th._"! no.1ey that would 1 o 1 '~nd in hn:.l beea pelt a\ ay ft.,1r a compan.··., this 111 a could be pc.1yroll. People ju::, d r. t '=e. 1 >aicl ex J .. c. t e I ture. \Ve because tn re \ :.s no mo 'Q. Tn<:: big neC;<..l a • ~ a s to h2lp get differe·1ce b th t the1e i.!; a la v for the ,1 L .appre:,endir g .h,:.. \ €.., \\ :.o steal >8'.Yin rolls. ts, Tt 'c' seal ahng th, ::vr~i f' coa.:;t i • e .. ac.+ly t' "' .,,a-n , 3 a t 1· ,f a Day j_ o,l. T.ie fl 1 h( .ce .. h _ r uim,. t 1e schou~ _ e • .iJ- lL r ~ l m ~an le , nu ~cy c;r 1c 1 herMy , , th· 'C the n"en ~ cl tho""e ,, ho , 01.~ .n ,he c ....1- seals 000 a year Ping plants. in 1 kC'n \\ eir\Vell, ,niat _hou.d we do? pC'::.k 10.1st 200 1 A year ago la t Janudry -\•;e i:ried mer e Coast 'to g __ t tne Stene Leg· sl«ture to pa~s ''J•'.::1c 0_ 111} ; 1•. T t , ect loss a till whic, ,,.·c,uld p-o,ide a bounty to the .:sherr1e a ut S200,\ of $:3.t,U a r _ad >, eal to h-..lp cxter- 000 .... yeE l -not t ) l" ''t n ihC' loss minate thtm i 1 thi,s .=.rea. to the pC'oplc i11 ch, c 1 ing plants. The f'u:,herrr-ens' • 1ter c ,t in thb Toda.,• \,'h n t ic .\\ ~rld n 'eds all matte~· sot gron1d be wee 1 th, mill- tne fi ·h 1t cau gt. t. 11; lti 5mall comstore oi politic.:: and ,,orne mi ,guided fm t to know we l'a\ e a lot of seals peo_::,le in the Auaubon Soc.ety \, ho s irnminJ around w~th full bellies. Tney belong in zoos. There they car, amuse little children and be fed ing n~ac1e to ha\'e Ro'!kland k•1dinl{.- by the curious. included in the daily bu!ldins of ·we Hov: a')out ·t? Do I hear a few F:sh a11d Wile 1i:-e 1·eportit1J serYic:e. gruribles of ;:igreement? It \\ ill cost 'At th'-- pre,ent vi.ne Boston, Glouce. • you ti1ree ce 1t 5 to "lake your opinter. New Bedfo ·cl and Por,hnd a1 ~ ion lie,,rd in hi~ natter. the only 1 , w Ellf;1df::J ports listed. ·rndi\ idual1y we can gripe. 'Yvitl· tl i~ ~et-up ye :•x, cct to be Colle ti,,,, 1y , c c ,:•1 ::.£O\VV able to gn e a better :::;t;:iti-;tical se:lEd. :'iote. Main,e Co~.,;t Fisherman \ ice to the inrlu, •ry a· cl with re- v.rill be hr\ to r ::eive a 1y construccbcecl cost to the L cpar.men.", 11- I tiv 0 1ettE:rs on contro\·ersial sub. said. jec:t". l '1
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Some bloodworms· reach giant size. Richard Pease of Newcastle displays a two and a half foot bloodworm taken from the Sheepscot River sect:on. A normal sized bloodworm, about eight inches long, is shown for comparison. /
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Reginald Wright of North Edgecomb digs in the soft mud of a l\lame tidewater flat for sandworms. If he has any luck, he will get between 400 and 500 worms at one tide. Present price is $2.00 a hundred. Worms finally appear at the end -of fishermen's lines on excursion boa s out of ew York. Fish are partial to Maine worms.
_ _y-- The sea-mass they are raking will eventually end • up in chocolate syrup. Foreman Kenneth McDonald, left, and three members of his tank crew, Hugh Mad den, Harry Hart!ed, and Larry Pecci, all of Bath, are turr.ing over a batch of sea moss at the Small Point plant of Marine Gro·wths, Inc. Moss is collected along tidal ledges, dried and baled. After chemical treatment it provides a stabilizer for chocolate syrups and ice cream. (Story on pag1!' 11)
Fire-fighting detail from Rockland Coast Guard Base bears a hand at the alcohol fire which destroyed Ute plant and equipment of Algin Corporation of America at Rockland. Plant, which produced sodium alginate from kelp, will be rebuilt. (Story on . page 10)
Captain Frank Ross of OW!'.s Bead, skipper of the Helen Mae Il hlghline dragger out of Rockland, is shown as he released a. homing pigeon Melvin Lothrop of Scarboro is shown re-planting seed clams by boat, while Archie Merrill, a,lso of Scarcarried aboard draggers · dllling the war. Crew members- of tJie Helen boro; handles tb,e oars. This-is part of the· re·cent re-seeding program ca.rried out by 14 volunteer- fishermen Mae II- eun-entiy -giling~with- &OSS: are- Edward Childs;· Ctia.rles Lav:ry, ,_ho -dug 78 buslrels of sma.tt chuns from -hea.vily· pop.u-lated fla1's ancl -r.e-seeded them - fn..-·the - Scarboro River " ·-··-charles-Wf.-Oarver a.ad ;G~.neil; ..U -·of"'.&ockliuaa-. -rp olo 001lrte,~ . -;.,: ....~ ~rea. hG.ped~-JU311agfill .fiats can yield as ~ ,i gh as $2,000 a.n .aue" _(S:i,oey 1 on page 23) ·- - • ~- •.- - - -:--- -----Boetrlamct-"6ouin-6aRtte.- ·i'BtJory~it
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Sand worms are counted out into trays by Claude Flye of Newcastle. Trays arc lined with several thicknesses of clean dry newspaper. Worms are allowed to dry in the trays for two hours before they are packed for shipment.
They make lobster buoys for busy fishermen. Stuart Farnum, foreg1·ound, turns a buoy on the lathe while Leland Ha\vkins drills a spindle hole at the drill press in the rear of the their shop at Rockport. Present heavy demand for lobster buoys keeps the wheels going in this shop. (Story on page 14) ,.
Lifford L. Small of Lincolnville holds Young Smalley, first three- cl wed lobster Small has .ca,ught in 23 yeaTs of fishing. A third claw is 0 growjng _ op the-pinoer-of the Jo'bster's: left claw. "I'm going to makce some -, L J&<Y ... er~.on hhlr.":sa,ys Sm411; "Ma'J'l)e a . lIHl'Seum will want him/' (Stor • - - • - "•. A)••- -- - - . •- • .........,.~~~ ~, ..• . .•. ,... . . . . , - , • •--•,,_ . - •. •
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One of Maine's smaller tunas is being hauled a board by a group of Bailey's Island fishermen. The big bluefins are now running and from all indications it is going to be a record breaking season. Schools are running in waters from Matinicus Rock west -t.o York. The fish above weighed 600 pounds when they got him on the scales. Tuna landings in Maine last year totalled i00,000 pounds.
Andrew T. Habe and Leonard Saunders, both of Gloucester, Mass., co-owners of the 88-foot dragger. DoJp-hin, saw through tbe timbers whieh hold her to the ways of the Newbert and Wallace Shipyard at Thomaston. D~lphin _wili have· a. 250-hersapower Atlas Diesel and an estimated capacity of ,135,00-0- pounds of fish • . She- is the-.-ioth :fu:ldng ·vessel completed.bl' Newbert and W•lla.cc since the yard's openbtg jus.t before the war. (.Stoey on ~g-e .19) ,._ .
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Firemen run lines to blazing Algin Corporation plant at Rockland. Plant, which produced rndium alginate from kelp, was destroyed with an estimated loss of 5500,000. I
processes required a maze of tanks. I pipelines. pumps and ,·ats throughout 1 Nichoias Pellicani, vice-president the plant. confributing tO the e··tre1 cf the Algin Corporation of America mely high loss. , a( Rockland, is airecting the i·ebuildThe m&jority of the 65 men cm, ing o.l' the plant which was recently ployed were skilled in one way 01 ] deSfroyed by fire. another in the chemical proces,es, • Nicholas Pellicani. Yice president many of whom were holders of deof the Algin Corporation of Amcri- grces in chemistry. ca at Rockland announced recently . The blaze. which according to Bart that operations ,vill be established I Pellicani started around a pump lme, in the remaining buildings of the spread so rapidly. canicd )Ya heavy plnnt which will allmv about 25'~ I concentration of al~onol _fumes. t 1?t of the former output. A fire recently the workmen had little tune w ti:.rn caused a half million dollar loss at its progress before they had to .If e ihe pla1lt. the building. This move is oeing made. whil~ I In add,tion to the building ::in.{ '7.nal pre1'srati8, f are unden,·ay fo. cquipme1 t. some 10.000 gdllons 01 \ ·orltman chedrn a batte;:y of test still!. used in det ,·mining -.. itamin the proc'i:reruent of m::iteriais and i,;;opropyl alcho: used in tl1e prcce.::,S col"t"nts of fish live1· oils at the plant of o:stil :::.tion Prcclucts, Inc., mac•-:.inery for the rebuilding of ·L11~ was d" ·tr? ·ed. ::.clclit~g ft~ry ·,o _,ho R t. e ter, 1r. Y. fhin) metal di!,l,'i al.)ove a.·c uctually rotathlg at high r.1ain ph-rt. flames w111ch r:1z2cl tne 2.-iO wot by neeci in vacuum 1m let· meta -co, ered bell-jars in the molecufal· distilThe sm 3u,.,r p'tmt is knc,\·n in the 1 125 foot structu~e i,r, 30 il~!" 1 1tc ,;. latL,n pro ct! '> whicl: , ep, ates the vH min A Estc1· track :J an (. •1 ar: 11ental ')ilot plant T her~ ;vc re :ont:nua. l ~ J L --;1 '..is ~ . . rnd win be t:_1aer i.he direciion of chemical tank, exploded om , 1c 11 the o.l from its cou ,m the coc,. There B rt p 11 . ·t• , . . ""d t ten.,c hE'' t. e ic. 1 "\\ ? . \\ as 1 c 1 _en , are undoubtccllv other fi_,h i•, tre t a • Algi•1, \\ irh is a white PO\v • r.ich in vi- manager 0 cl"lQ on g ma1 est a bl1. l1No rth Atlantic rtlafvel•· " n t ~ubst • t.sc cl in t .. e m • tamin A, and con 11erci ~ exploita- 1 e., • established on ture in foods, ;re Lrcar l ticm of so:rrie of these could ,Je a val- • The c or ft a. a stabili U'l.ble "v rce of incume w d.e ';.,,h19;37 and has Its h . m1101tant w By •mg 1• 1c; ...i. t ry • ' e·· larg.ing SE. verr l was i ' the G. C. i\Iees, Vice Pre,,ident I war yea t11e Di.till tion Pr dt ctr.; Inc. t .\ Valuable Snurcc o Inn-0n1c z,kir· ·n.d p nici .. e t To ci e 2 fr\/ fi~un, 011 i 1e value in f atincr . ar ty OJ. all ' C 'C'f't' - • 'i • m 111 ,· n')W of vi a min A, t 1e (Jtt r Ti awlers' w~r 2< (, t t. e tim b ,· 'f c .... \\ ic,e'y • , k na - ~. c.i c..r ,g-;, L nic ,: of SE tt lp C • in'c tPrl t lat in "vitr i• A: t y (,]1(' ,•LC' I ,-. i f' t l • 19.i.5 tlw fleet l.rn , cl tr r" _ mi 1i0n I c _J "<.: all . 11( d at n~ of ,],e . • d.,11,.a ... • \'u h • f0 1.. 1 h , u, ·11 A, C.c otent, r -:.·:, t0 c1· . icu 0'1 Croc. . JUt t I. ,he cane ) cu o.'1f' arid 0., 1,alf m • they y 22 v,: i 1, '" le, .., t :r l " U,J 1, r.,' \ cit :i. . n II, er. I t· r. ' \ , to isc!.:ite il, ' ,o ~o ~l il~in~ '" cl er:; i 1 ~; •h , ;roclucho , c _n A oil. t t trp m :..nd ·t corrim Thu . o -e-U,ird c; 0 (' ,Il tn -, 1,· nt y + be r 'T','<' c. igin:il l1c,1d,; of t,1" ;i " v '"' • [ thL f'L_t was de' \·eJ fron1 hn . rt>, vanou, f~ ' 1 .::i ~f 1·,,,:1 1, ofitable vlll 11>1 f\ fishE-r- w •re R be.t Ho't of ::\'c\. Jer.<-y, rd ' 1 j ie •. Fi ·r u 1cl Wildlifo Se£vice re - 1 ~.+.e; h.i'l c. in a tivn in the P8c_fl '. ma. 1t L~~ r . ·~- e, th :c,I 0 cab e ~i;_ .cc: c Itarr ; r A - r u__ - port,; tr.at th<.:' t'ltU ""'l .e of v1t,m1•1 and Vi t0r .... ("Gloahr:c of Franc~. {)Pc ~kr E.!11.al V hi..· dU do ,L,,.t:.. Surp,Ii ,-1 A livers landed ; 1 th·s ccnmtry dur- c. the ~ore,no t chc ~1ists in hL .1t•ld 1ngly eno tirh. ~,tl uug 1 1'<<:w. E.l,:- i:r.g 194:J amou:'1ted to 11,333,388. in the \, orld. l ·, ,nid_ ~ rt.,c-Ll~~~ Y Marne is ''~E One can specL.late at 1eµgth as +o the A highly technic;:l proce •., i • re0 th e P ~ t • '1. ~ c~:1 te:.., of .. t ~ total af 1 re~at•· nld!'ket for vitamm qu; .::ct to 0Lta1 1 the al~i·· from ·.he T _ Llnit~d St tL. 0 dppr ciab e a.n u 1. A. but it 1s gp·1era1iy estimated co be raw kelp \ hic.1 •s gathered along the, ( f " tu1:• 1 ~ 2 , such h~ bee:1 pr~- of the orc,er of 1we 1ty to twenty- Maine. r,ew Bn...r:swick znd No\·a du~ 'd 111 thi ~ ,area. Thi article is I fi\-e million dolla1·s annually for this Scotia coa ,ts. ifecessary chen, 1ca; v.;n _ten to PO•' u- ' '-Ll''1e cf t~c p'J- country. and the e is an e, er-intE nJ•L1l va]u(' cf a nei•Iectcd n_,hery creasing demand .::or Jroducb con- to exu!"line care "ully tne 1. ,-2rs ()f a 1 ~l'c.; to € n 0c1ra~E' M,:ure -<1.,hE.rmen to . . . g 't m.111 A number of thes~ fish of both ~e::-.-!~. 1 1 do •hf r b~·:;t t~ exploit this feld of tamrn a - • Reporh tlrnt we have received from re• 11ue. _It <-hi _u1~ be rn, .ted out th't vita- occac;io,,al ·arn~l€'s of li\ec·s trurr The o, ig1m I marirl' source ·.vas I 11111 A is n cx:n.mcly ..:hort s uuply ~t>w F:ig 1 a~d have indica•ec, a fo .. , c,..r1 lh er oil, rr. 1 "I 'n~• JisJ,erme·1 at +he> pn.se 11 t time a d that there i" rel:.lth·cl;, rich oilE. althou-:::J, tne ..mlk I ha. e shared to a val de,,· e ; 1 , 1c an excell,,nt 'T<arket for c".11 types of of th" ~amph. s have been clisa•, 10in:p. uct C'1 OJ. th1, forME. ·y impc.~ t- ◄ fi"h h\ c..r oib contuining <lP,~r~ciu~le in 6 .y lov·, at a JOl't ur lo\\ er t .al" ,he <1nt ,nc<lic·na:. _<\.s foll in'. oi.ance of q a11.•.t,es of th.s ~aluable vit~·nm. µote 1cy of l'' Ct liver oil. Val es , f I vi+a" in A m .utr.t-on . ., n.a1iz i It 1 urgently requirC'cl 101• forttfica- the li\·ers is uppePdent upor, the Yi-. anj thE. oe1rn'11d j,1c!·eased. other tio,1 of margarine and other foo6s tamin A pot~nc, -. fish livers ht,ve been explo:.:ed and a_nd for_ manufa:ture _of pharri:accu- 1 As to gear, "\Ve.st Cea ·t dogtL·h are Central l\-1aine Power delivers light, heat and the bulk of the vita1rin A no,·. u~ed ti~a~ pr O?ucts lor lugh-dosage ad- caucrht now larrt{']v with the conpo,ver to more than 160,000 domestic, farm and -com~., J:rom nen:oers of the shark I nnr~ st ration. __ . _ . ,entiol'd ottt.r t:·a\;l gear, and 1t is ia nily fak n off our \Vest Coast. A :r-;e,v Poss1b1hty for l\lame probab!~ that tne same type 0f industrial customers in central and southwestern wi:h appreciab'e additions in the The development of a rPw Yitamin equipmert would be suitable almg form of shmk liver oils from Me.·ico. A fh,!1ery is often a laborious and the Main-2 Coa 5 t. Orighally ,hei"e 1\Iaine. Departments are maintained to help plan So, ih Americ8, ar;d other part:s of dFf\c:.ilt task. It has been ,;hown that was a lot of obJection aiT>ong ·the I the v crld. Li\ ers from f-ec-d fi r,h con- fish, particul::,,rly specips of shark. mcm 'Jel".S of the Seattle .fleet b hc.ndelectrification of new homes, stores or factories tri' ~1te. perl:ap.:; 10 p~r ~ent of '_e t~ken 1?ear. shore gern'rdlly coritain ling c1ogfL3 h. but this was .,, 0011 overor in ren1odeHing existing buildings. Advisory towi 1tan11n A proCIUchon that 1s little v1tamm A and that the deep- c.ome ,, hen 1t was rea1iLed ,he no11,a le. w;-iter fish are larger and consider- tcntial vah,e of the catch and the services for farmers are readily available, as are S me of the species found in the ably richer in the elusive ,·itamin. other ~d, antage:; of ·the .;snery. Nc-rth Atlantic contain vitamin A in Therefore. one obvious means of atDis~il!c1tion Products. Inc .. Hochhome seryice, appliance and equipment repair, and larger ari.ounts than do codfish: for tack would be to outfit one or more e~ter. ~ev., York. has pioneereCt in €Xample. pnlloc:~ li,·ei· oil is three to boats eauipped to fish shark or. more the developme1 , of specialized industrial location departments. Just .call on us. fiye times as r.,otent "in \ itamin A as , proba o1y. dogfish well off shore anc. eqt.ipment kno-.vn as mole:ular ,..,....,...,,...mun •:t:::::~=::i:::tm:• st11l<s for the processing of fish li\·er ;1a:•:•::n:.::;::u::.::::!:.!:m+ ~:::::::::::::::::::tnum+.:t:ttU:U::~ oils by high-Yacuum di:::tillatior. As DIVISION OFFICES :i ' ::,. t:,e lan:~ut user of the:,e oib it is J: j! pdr icularly mterested in attemptPORTLAND ROCKLAND AUGUSTA 1! • • . 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.talph Duffey Spends ?o~th by Battling ingry .150J)-lb. Shark
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Long Island-Most peop:ie spend ·1 he fourth of J,:-1ly shooting off fire'tackers. Ralph Duffey of Blue H.:11 pent it battling a 14-foot shark. On going to his weir at Long Isan d that morning. Duffey found a 1ungry shark had become snarled n the pocket of the weir and was hrashing around trying to free himSmall Point-"This year we can :elf. take all the sea moss anybody can bring us,' ' Elroy Johnson, manager Duffey and the men with him got of the Marine Growths plant at :ome ropes around the shark and Small Point stated recently. 1auled him clear of the weir. They ,tarted to tow him across to the old "When we started m 1942. we ,teamboat wharf. processed about 60,000 pounds the But the shark, still alive and fightfirst season," Johnson said. "Now ng mad, gave battle. Twice he provwe hope to process 3.000,000 pounds ~d more powerful that the lobster by October when the season ends.·• :>o~ towing him and turned it Additional drying area for sea ~round. (Ask Duffey!) His strength moss was ~ently bulldozed out to Rakers in the foreground are turning over sea moss for drying at the Small Point plant of Marine iinally weakened, however, and Dufthe rear of the Small Point beach Growths Inc. After drying, the moss is packed for shipment in the buildings at the rear, and sent to Chicago ~ y hauled him to the other side. and the capacity of the processing plant there has been doubled over By the time they had reached the where it is used in producing a stabilizer for chocolate sy1·ups. last year. wharf, the ropes which had been ;ien around the shark's gills had Marine Growths Inc. now emp1oys Maine Coast Fisherman repurter ,mothered the shark underwater and who saw the shark is a recently reabout 90 people from the Bath and :ie was dead. Phippsburg areas, and, when the turned Navy vet and said it was bigDuffey estimated the weight at ger than any shark he'd seen in Durin~the war in 1917-18, con- weather is right, processes about :lose to 1,500 pounds. thousands of miles of Pacific sea siderable money was spent in re- 180,000 pounds of wet moss per day. "He was a fat, healthy shark," duty. search to develop more economical The sea moss is raked off the rocks and ledges at low tide by gatherers Duffey said. This is a true fish story - Ask methods for obtaining kelp prod- working with a spedal rake and a Cost to Duffey in damaged weir Ralph Duffey. "If Maine fishermen show enough ucts, since the shortage was acute. dory. A good gatherer can get 1250 pocket came to about $250 not to interest in fishing for livers, our At the close of the war considerable pounds a day for which Marine mention a weir-full of fish. Duffey company would certainly consider progress had been made, but since Growths pays $25. Some gatherers 3hipped the shark to Boston where ::Jensity of the atmosphere at sea . have cleared well over $100 a week. establishing a processing plant along . he got $300 for the shark meat. Dufimports of cheaper material could The moss is dried and baled at fey said that wculd help defray the level is about one eight-hundredth the Maine coast," G. C. Mees, vice1 be obtained, most of the kelp plants Small Point and then shipped to one president of Distillation Products, :ost of a new weir pocket. ihe density of water. Inc., Rochester, N. Y. stated recently. closed. One or two remained in op- of the processing divisions of BowIf the fish liver volume along the eration preparing fertilizer and dairy eys Inc. which has plants at Chicago, Brooklyn and San Francisco. Maine coast were high enough, ac- cattle food from the dried seaweed. cording to Mees, the company would It has since been found that the The moss is then treated chemiinstall a plant for processing livers kelp contained alginic acid, which cally to produce a stabilizer for chocfor oil. At present some livers are can be used in the manufacture of olate syrups, cheese and ice-ream. being processed by independent Mas- a material known as algin. This has Frederick Moffatt of Bath assists sachusetts companies. Oil is then a wide variety of uses, the most im- Johnson as bookkeeper at the plant. shipped to Rochester for distillation portant of which is a stabilizer for One of the foremen on the beach is and extraction of vitamin A. ice cream and other dairy products. Clinton Richardson, 17, whose father The world-wide demand for vitaIt is also valuable in the prepara- is Owen A. Richardson, Sea and min A coupled with the depletion of tion of rubber articles, finishing of Shore Fisheries Warden for Sagadathe soup-fin shark and dogfish re- leather, waterproofing cement, fire- hoc County. Richardson has worked source on the West coast has raised proofing wood and other inflam- during the season at Marine Growths the price of fish livers with good mable materials, treatment of boiler for the past two years. vitamin A content to 75c per pound, water, can-sealing compounds, watA number of the workers now according tp K. S. French, represen- er-base paints, dental-impression a- travel back and forth between S:naU tative of Distillation Products who terials, and gaskets for airplane en- Point and Bath and Phippsburg by a recently made a special trip to Bel- gines. This has grown into an indus- chartered bus. Wet or foggy weather fast to .explain the possibilities of try of considerable importance, parholds up operations at Small Point this valuable resource. ticularly during the present war, hecause the sun is needed to dry out Commercial exploitation of high- since many of the materials used by the moss. potency fish livers could be a valu- the armed forces contain algin.At the present time the Small able source of income to the Maine Senate Document No. 51 Point plant is the only one in operafishermen, he said. Because demand is far in excess of present and future testing either by freezing or pickel- tion but several out of state firms supplies, fish liver prices probably ing in a special compound known as have a truck pick-up service at points along the coast. will not fluctuate as rapidly a s other Aqua-Cide. fish prices, which tend to decline with increased meat supplies. Shortage of vitamin A is reflected in its price which since 1940 has soared from 2½ cents per million units to 22c today. Liver prices have increased accordinl,r. French stated that Iishernien today are probably throwing away valuable livers which could be used as a source of vitamin A. Pollock liver oil, for xample, has been found to be three to 'five times as potent in vitamin A as codliver oil. There probably are 0th.er livers equally as valuable. In the past, New England fisheries have not handled any large quantity of fish livers, but the prosdi:v·..M 1 pect of long-continued demand in"Hake Our dicated there a're possibilities of deMost fishermen are well acquainted with Sawyer's long-estab- veloping this resource in Maine. lished line of "Frog Brand" oilskin clothing. Now Sawyer offers a Distillation Products, Inc., extracts new companion line of rubberized clothing for fishermen - sold the vitamin from fish liver oil by LARGEST BUYERS OF HAKE under the trade name of Sawyer's "Lighthouse Brand." Light- the use of high-vacuum stills. Vacuum enables the oils to be distilled house Brand fishermen's clothing is "tops" because it is IN NEW ENGLAND at lower temperatures thereby preserving the vitamin co!'lcentrate. RUBBERIZED RUGGED: it will withstand rough-andLivers taken from dogfish close in. tough going; has greater resistance to scuffiing, BOSTON, MASS. 18 FISH PIER shore have yielded poor results, snagging and tearing; waterproof throughout; French stated, but there are indicaTel. UBERTY 0584 - 0585 withstands salt spray. tions that livers from fish taken at STRONG APLENTY: every seam is double-stitched sea yield as high as 10 to J2,000 units and waterproofed; non-corrosive, reinforced but- per gram. Livers are preserved for tons; the best buttonholes that can be made. THOUGHTFULLY BUILT: inside storm flyfront in the .-~•'":S,:•. coat protects against water seepage and heavy -~ ••••·. o·• seas; corduroy collar for comfort, wear and ap,.·0:-"#1~··.c.: i._: ~v,~ perance. • ;-'; :rnl EXTRA ROOMY: full oversize jacket; full-waisted \ * \ ______ f • f trousers; roomy legs 23" long. SOFT HAT: dry, smooth, comfortabl e, and flexible Engine Rebuilding., Electrical Repair, or any ·••. f..,,· - easily folded and stored.
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• : n to 1 •yi l • ~hi., 1apaid .OO!J lO 1cr the fisher n t.1, sp1ing fer rracby 1., CJ 1pen ~ te k rel, shad, ri\ er herr,ng . .sea herian lV1any lOll • of C ri 1g. hac!cl ck. faked fish. shrimp, ited herring a • :.::~ 1t rnto t 1e c!n :1s ;:i c , a: d11es. ..Iitchell ;a:d States. 1110stly i':l bo1 d, ho \ that though t ,e sardi11es have been delive i.1 th0 f r I ro·1in,:_,p n,nr.i g _lack"r ~his .Yc3.i' ,han la-,t Northwc. t. Th-:-;:e i 1 ut.} ·.1e"a11 -- of the cC'ld ai1d rain and .i1e _ n f,:d-'" al ii1e ;-,~a.inc c:og-'i::-h, he is still lookhg for a good herring, but a duty i.;; mp cc-><;(, V!:11 wn bove at surnn1er. • the smokc-c;. red fbh b~· 'U~ th~ lie _!a"-" gp:1n~··s <! erk. Due to the meat ·ho ,· {e. The co..,.,~any O\, ns four :-ardine 1.'l'atf'r front scene as Belfast sh ipped Hs co!1trilJutiou of carmcd food i'l l eing re. -rdin~ c:1rr:cr the fresh herring that co. bnuL , nd huys frcm te:1 ~cincr.; a:1d and loca: ~y packed sardines to UNRRA. Le!t to rig it , '\V:lHam .:'.Iuir, to opcraL out of L.:ith. nearoy plac s ~ir,, .:1)l!t. clca 18 weirs. The boats are t:aptai, d by manager of the Colonia l Theate r which sponsored the food matinee, cd and given a light smoke a Fred Lewi•. Maurice A!l~y. Cha1l2s \ Vi lliam Jo lwson, Chairman of the Em erge n cy Food Collection Commzttee. as kippers. Latf'r there will BeJfiCJst Po cse: ing Cc . IIooper. and Minct Co:1a:ry. l\layor Harold R. Sione. r.l,:s. i\Ia.rion lUartiu, Glenn L:nvrencc, head of ·,h~ to cut, elean ar.ci. p.,ck larg • :Mitchell said last year the govern- Belfast I'acking Company a n d Ro bert ,v . Carrick, .Editol' of Tl c F.epub Refi •Hng •/hilea va y • m~nt salt and \ ine;2r to prm ide t. tock e5 ..- r of the fish and this li can Journal. mops·· for the Xew York m 1 year has contracted :!:or ·15'1 . Belfast The Belfast Pack ng CamB1111 · lriin2: One industr. \',hic:1 hd. no ~ccivpar._v has n:cen:ly acquired the ~a"·D ~~ ' io..l.h u '" '~ ed much puclic1ty but '\\ 1 - h has. dine bc~t 1V!iil~a·•,ay. She is now bei"SCrO\VS o .t the Sea lJ been an irrporlant conl1ibL.tC' to loing Gtted \\' i th "\': fisl1 ·Lan ks 2.1~d OilCS p Ortea S • a i UrC !. C1r cal payro.ls. i:: the cod-packing plant bulk'1cacls and will ha':e a capacity By Don O'Dolan ____ ____ of the Bcoth Fishcric~ Com1 ny in of 70 hog,hcads of fish. Englishm:,m B::.y-A y;pir someBy Don O'Dola n East J\I;::chias-Fcr the first time the former Columbian Packi:1 Co.'s • The 70-fcot Vlhilea~.\ ay ,\·as ac - 1 ·.nes, looks like a ,Yeli-attendcd Jonesport and Beals Island in m:>TJy years. the alewife nm in factory. Tlus plant. SllJ?crv1.;ed by quir d in Eac;tport and afte:, bein<Y sport, a:::-c-rn • .,\ll arou nd .h~ c\,·ine James Alley's ne\·: boat c.ime off the the East J\,Iachias rin~r has been a IG~rnett Gr C'l 11 "'·· 10 ~ tvcd cnchfit,;:; Ge. ;:;, B '_a.,t will r ..1n fr::1 out '.opping. g.;.lls and shags have ri!'lg - ";ays recently. built by Milton Beal failure'. In past sctl:;ons the catch ~aH d co(j!l,ll ... fron _pomts a ~ar_ as of that poi t until the new 1,E\.::.:iP~ ~ide perches. The:-,,· sit. but cn.'r~- at J onespcrt. It's a 32 footer with there has sold for close to $10.000. ice land and I eenlc.nd m C. arlrnn plant i • r2aay at Bath. She ·will i'QW and then one \:ill drop languid- 9 foot beam. Chr"slc:::- poy,rered. The but this year barely a few hundred schdoot1l1ers. Tdhclly aP parlyddn d o~1t, prD· n ly tr'ln" 0r to Bath sometn-..1 ·y to the S'1rface. rluck up a penned •·Ah-in E." and ·ancther new boat dollars· \\·o;:th were taken as thev afn 1eb 1n. le es d1?~1ovc 1 . mn,,e in AugList. ..;o skip1 er h;.-,.; been rn rd inc. a nd flap back to his seat to are ender construction on Beals, and came 1,u on the annual pilgrimage ;_;. ba~1 CY 1:c oxt cc C? lS,l. :t' llO\V na,-:.f 'l iJ . . 11c jr.,b. • hulJ,· -,·n •11cl1 rdicctivelv. J like a fat c1d sc:-.-~ral in Jcnesnort. the upper v,,aters of the East River. ,. rmgs •1 a op d l)rICe k • .. s 1 t 1s " • ,.;One ess an ma ·es a mo· a ·active Yvh1 u1w .. : i :m old l1and alor.i f • r-op cu,h·or-poppcn on a divan :Hand-line fl.shin.!! the Coa5t ancl 30 .·ean rgo ,,a" a with a box of bonbons. - lLs ~een u. oor. In _1943 the_ eaten 4was 4,000 barrels. I one -potind pacl~a""· · "" • cl 1 Tra\\'l fishing .has A mong th e prom •nen t pac. l\'£:rnv trick. l:a·.-e been tne )Y - turned up a good Tlus F'c-hyear . it ,vas h . oo.f , - . for ,:liar L·~urc ar0u:Y1 tile Turtle h. • run of hake. and 15 or 20 trawlers , i~ er men ere ee, lne1 e are "11 olr cl fi h l1m• ., . ,;::11 . D He -.d area. s:1e \\ as completely :re- weir o".lerator;:, b abate t . is nmsance. three reasons for this c:,:mc:e _in the •• 1 ,c s ~- c ... 1 e ..., erma en , ",,u t termg • P ernaps built i'1 :i015. cans an ct rags frcm here ure busy. '\\itl1 most of it alewife catch and the c:ractual de - 1s)O\.\' _an d J_o IY~ D.,ur 0 _m. w J,o o~er~. t C' B u t in • bridge. being canned by Roy Wrighf'in :Mill- pletion of this resource, whicl1 = · l 1-. C • \,f K e 11 PY, h• T d ' she i, p werci b_· a Fair- are l1ung ;:1-ouncl th , e t op,,,.1g. would ,C\ era s t a11 d ,· ca~·•· t (llfC' 75 ho:r, pO\\Cr ,hiee a few days. t~1e bil·ds ;vill be sharp ha,·e netted the town Sl 2 _000 this whc m:ikcs a special y of an y ed• • caws l • an d usThis s,·stem o!.· '1.r:. '\\ iinc: c. c'i-...,el e l inc. enmg ·nc;r on ti1e t m J - is a good year with the price at $ 3 per barrel. 1""'.p 11a11 e b o11e 1cc;s. tl1_L Pe".. c-oc k c aning the clot])., fo1 a bill 'iC'xcl. denl like laying a trans-Atlantic 1 ' f 1 . l . ' nm~ Co. Ram dell F1sh Conpany, H. • r· 11 One reason. ee • is t 1cAnother i.1aae- L i Edd •t. Se~SOnl .1 '- 1e ... e, ey. of J oncspor.' an d cable. Lonoa set-lines are used. eacl~ quacy of thet le) old fishway. . . K e 11 ey an d th e C o.urr, Jl• 1, J>ac 1(L2keman's I l.:i.11d, :.:how:s i:naginatio!1 with some 530 hooks. A set-iine is . . mg Co. In a good yPar t c •c. • • . ,..,, d t· . .... . tt , baited by attaching a herring to each is the stopping of the progress of fish th ~i .,,... e·.• n h.'."'!V r ,.., an u vcn n e!l.ess 1n i,lS a e1npL::;. i·nto G ardner' s Lake, ai1 ~xtensi· ,·c e oth er. ou t -o1f - t own st an d v, i 11 E n ;;; h..., ...,...... w I l l 1 • ·t t· hook, while the line 'with its leaders '• t tl t 1 l lf ---- • Last season 1~ 1ac a u;;c m11 :;. lOn is coikd inride of a trawl-tub much spawnincr ground. This was brought P~ . on 1c ml?l',\:e ~ nN1r y 13 . a cte man on a buv.Y, c1 rolypol giant of b t ti gh tl ff t I ti m1l110n boxes and packares of choice --e~cl•. fo~· u_,c c"ftcr qu'te ~~!~~ the \':a,·c.:; figure, \\hich he anchored like a half barrel. :Pi~~in2: 1~~~ermc~e wehoo\~cr~ ub~~ bone~ hcr~ing. .. in pound or 1_Jocket. It broke loose In use, one mai., stands aler t at ~ . I Prices on smoked and boneless fish tc~· darna'2e. out vcrv_ few ~<100d '1er- dliring hc2, .v \\·e;:.thc, and took a t·11 • ·f t w l11·1e anot h e r to ha\·e the dam closed so as to 1m- have rncreased . 1 er an ct gear-sm • ac: fa t a ,,1ose !"iniz ,.·et have st3rtcd to rue. d d f th 1· 1:,r ove the salmon fishing i n this s;x 1 " ' -. • "' 3 ~ stroll for itself a.round the bay. In rops a tcrn one en e me mile area. The third reason it is any_ other comm d1ty. In the old ~ay _ H.:.:.Iph \Vatt_, _,c·ne.:. ( ... t one J·aul ca:·ly mor,1mg fog, ',his Old Man of equipped with ·weight and buoy. cfa.imed is the use of practically all a liberal w~oden 1).o.· of medium n "h" early ran. C1ar2nce Fi:::h the Sea loomed up at fishermen. Then, as the boat moves along slow - t he water in the ri\•er by the Bangor smoked hern,1g solct for ten cenls •urnNl C\·er one sci•1in~, just ,o ret causieg many to sign the pledge. ly, the line is paid out usually with Hydroelectric Company at its power and a half bushel box of hlcatcrs r:cl o~ it. to ;:. scalinr boat . Austin This season. Mr. Kelley has evol - a small paddle to flip ihe lead~rs la n t b elow t he hi«hwa bridge for half a dollar . . Jov,; the medium .\rm~tro1,f!, \". ho ad·'ed a pocket to ved a rig o·,1 a raft y;hich will boom and hooks free. , p .:, Y • boxes a r e not large} ' produced and ~he old Uria 1 S r:1it'1 wei r pri\•ilege 1·rr thn \\ ~ ..i..- of \',·a,,.-.~., like a bell Often \\ hen one line is all l~ id T he water was r e nd ered too l ow fo r th t k -. t. b l l " = i ,. anot·11er' o1· mor·e ,:.1 •11 ba J ·o1 ·ncd r1· a ght• 1 t h e fish to r each the fish way, but be- t e ts ofic gocst 111 o odne essb at :arthcre~t up the Kennebec ri\·er. buoy. " f th . .· ht t wen y- 1ve cen s a poun or e _ O con- t recently made one good s~ining of _______ _________ on t o extend it Occasional snarling cause O e company s ug d. ~ th I th r ~O hogshead:. the shut-up fish better. If the system of line a n d le~der necessitate that trol e fl<?w for com me ci,al PL1r - ei6u~~f~;r~n\;~c and 0 ~1tpi:e-re That pionc"'r fishing pair. Al ·ery proves _satisfactory._ it w ill save much t he p~lot k eep ready to throw the I pose~. n~ th mg can. be d one ~o rem- tried t o pack smckcd and pickled c1nd Am.:r:C::i \'.'c:~ ::;:c~ are installing work 111 the maintenance of ·Lhe b oat mto neutral and back water 'edy it , v. 1th out cuttmg off an import - 1 fi sh b ut it <=eems that only ruccess of \\'ei··,-• A,·e a nd Mandy '"h , ant power that a ne\',· t,:pe cf tYiaterial this season on b rush -type . " i.le ,.1.reei·ng. 1•1. . 1 ~service t f . h' t ies into t he d f u 1 ' smok e d- fi s·h pac k ers t Od., ay a r etheir weir. Fcr·~1erl.\·, ,,11 ,he::-·- 11er - are h•oping • The trawl 1s left for several hours· ge sys em ms mgt power an th e L u b ec. E• as t p ort an'ct d own-s h ore · r neia ht h furth • ring -pounds h:1\'e u:::ed several The mon th of good lob ster mg p erhaps ove r night, t hen pulled in . ig t o m uc O e eas ern section I nati\'es. • th ousand separate spears of brush -~o which oft en occurs h e re i n early Although hake is the principal catch of th c count y. Such is not t he case. h owever fo rm the pocket-\·er y m uch like an summer this season was no good. right now. occasional tomcod, haliEarlier t his year, ,~1e Eastern l w ith sardines a s t here a re at l east ancient stackad2 fo1· prctection John Preston ha s ~aken up all_ his but. and other ground fish are found Main e Fish Industry Committee a nd t wo large fir~s now engaged in i h e against li1dfrm r.--.arauder s. Th is lias traps, to put them m good condition on the h ooks. the Boa r d of Select men of E ast Ma - business the Riv ier a P acking Co. of meant much har d \vork each sp r ing. for use during the fall period. Lobster fishermen, and that includ- chias appealed to the Fish and Vfild- New Yo~k and th e A. Booth Co. of replacing. spear by spear. all ,he Twine a:1d l~ne are . provi~g t~ b e es most m en on Be~ls an'!, many life Servi~e ot the Department of Chicago. The latter is in charge of poles ard bru sh that have been up - a:1 expen~1ve item. w 1~h tw1_ne ·~op- !onesporters, are gettmg tI:e1r traps th: _Int~nor to hBlp pre~ent the Eugene Healey of E astport, and set and sh atte red over winter. The pmg havmg doubled m pnce Just m shape for the season, which starts elumuat10n of the spawnmg beds sometimes imports a pa rt of its help n ew system is that of pan~ls or sec- since last season. about the first of August here. which )vo4ld divert the entire mi- from the city. tions. Each is made by stapling 3 or 4If there turns out to be enough A new-fangled head of plastic gration of alewives from the Ma- ~·- -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - fo ot wide inch-mesh galvanized slack time this year, it looks like came on the market last year to re- chias River. came to only 500 barrels . .Just outwire between two spears 14 feet Ralph Watts, master cabinet-and place the home-knit twine heads. Reports from othe:. areas along side the stream the bay was black long. A panel then is pushed dov,·n boat-builder, will end up with a good They will not replace them. One lob- the coast indicate a similarly poor with fish but very few went up the into place and fastened to the hori- comfortable boat for himself. He sterman decided that a lobster didn't year. • stream or up Dye r 's 'Riv er . .• zontal binder-poles. Ave figures t hat has been one of the old type narrow like that head even if he was forced At Damariicotta Mills and at Warwhen and if such a panel gets clog- j beam 28-foot launches, with rebuil to get acquainted witµ it. He delib - retJ. very .;poor catches were reported Fish desigas may be popular in the ged ,vith th e green slime, he ct1n stern, powered by a fresh-water erately set two lobsters inside of a this year. Toe take at Damariscotta automobile industry. if a model now clear it by scraping with a long- cooled Plymouth automobile engine. plastic-headed trap. The next morn~ ' in the testing stage proves its value;./, handled stiff brush. Such sections He planned out this new one for irig they were gon~ the Margaret A. is 37 feet long by 8 Former. theories that a car must ~ have been tried before, of lath con- himself last fall, and, without benefit Plastic twine has had some use, foot heam. Marshall expects to have heavy to hold to the road at high stn.1ction, with some success. These of blueprint. laid a personally-hewed but has not yet been tried long a hundred traps out later. speed are expected to be be disexperimenters already have noted keel and installed some of the ribs, enough to see whether the additional The R. B . and C. G . Stephens Com- proved. Who knows-maybe we'll that the air and water appear to be over winter. If his finished job prov- expense is justified. The plastic costs pany is packing some hake from see mackerel style coupes , haddock cooler inside the p ocket. due to ·,he es out his mind's image of it. and $12 a ball, as contrasted with mar- down east. The other factories are and cod sedans, and fl oundcr-fashgreater freedom cf wash through 'i:he given time and sufficient satisfactory Jine or other of the usucy. line at getting squared around for the sar- ioned beach wagon s, all neatly mesh. Perhaps this will tend to keep materials this fall and winter to work $2.50 a ball. ' : di1;1e fishery. ' streamlined. Weirmen will have to get alohg - -~ ,... - - - - - - -!'❖❖❖❖❖ *❖❖❖❖-...~~❖~•H--h.4++++#❖ 4 ❖❖❖❖❖-H+-t+"I-._H-❖❖❖❖❖❖•/4' without Marshall Kelly as sardine carrier. He's moved on to B eals, a t + + Alley Bay, sold his boat, and bought ❖ ❖ another smaller launch suitable for ;:+: lobstering and line fishing. H e's in:: -:..• stalled a new engine. but so far had + ~ ❖ trouble with a transmission that ROCKLAND, MAINE : doesn't feel like transmitting. This, + + -it t hrough, he should be next sea ; ; son handling an "Easter Outfit" craft + Canned , Pickled and ~pic'ed Fish •r cts + of almost too much luxury to use :,· ; for plain weir fishing. ♦ _;..~ + Clamming held up good r ight into : , ----~O--· ·...:· • • • ·June, so that shell-~ar red hands -~ + h;tve almost been the mark of a pluROCKLAND, .+ _. ~ _u--MAIHi r...._..l!!:-- •. ..,~ . _. ... . . ~ocraJ. + · • ·' •• ~- ~ -, • · . • • • Several.. herea bouts, have discard• ? _. ·· . _ _. ~cttheir conv erted-automobile_po~':r -· ♦ · ·. -• · · . . + m favor of new Palmer ma.rme .en--. '·c;;::··--·, ~ ..:.+ l,gm~s,~,w.ith-..which · w Jf>-~ - to~ ·" ~-4;~~ ~;~ ·- ,~-l!ltlAI ....... . . . . . ,..... :\.;: .. :::~·~ -;j: ;;~~ "'!"'~'!!11'9•~,,,...~~•"!!'J~~~!!l!!-+-~~~~~~~:-.--.....,:.,.----l cm:npJ 1y ne1;:,
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By Tony Butler demand in clams. mussels, mackerel """ ~ - and scallops. As to prices. I anticiBroo}:~~n ''Production here is pate that clams will drop somev,:bat about 12.000 cases ahec:d of this time in the not too distant future, but I last ye&r,"' R. P. Allen, se11ior part- don·t believe prices will go down :o Rer of Herrick and Allen, stated re- depress:on levels of the 30's," say:, cent!y. Allen's company pac.-<:s Allen. "H&A ' brand clams, mussels. river The plant which is 50 x 84 feet herring Caked fish, mackerel and has a l,5-foct fiume· from the dock sea her ing in theii ne'.\.' factory ut to the factory. The second floor. used Brooklin. for storage space. can handle 5 car''There is a good future in the loads of empty cans. A 50-foot s:i.rcanning business on the .i\Iaine dine carrier makes daily trips to coast.'' he said. ·'With the vvorld Swans Island to pick up fish .• Text wide food situation as it is today to the plant is the Cen•er Harbor and is bound to remain for some Lime Boat Yard operated by Frank Sylto come, we feel certain there w1ll vester. Cleeves Clapp cf Brooklin is be a demand for the type of product plant manager. we manufacture,'' he added. • Herrick, who grew up in BrooksThe Herrick and Allen plant, b- ville where he now. resides. operates cated on Eggemoggin Reach, and the main office of Herrick and Allen. The Ba.th Cannh1g Company·s ne,,· plant •w ill consist of the former Tc. as Steamship Company's Jayout ~uilt in 1943 when the previous He left home in 1923 after graduatshed shi.:wn abc1:e being 1emodeJed. A 150-horsepower boiler plant will ne inst~lled in t11e anne .. left centel". plar..t burned, anticipates a 6Q to 75.- ing from high school and lived ten Sardines caniers will 1,ring tl1eir lo.!ds up ~he Kennebec to the pianl's wharf. 000-case total production this year. yea.rs in the environs of New York The par~ners are particularly proud city where he worked as a chauffer In addition to con,:ersion of the l\Ianager Mcl\'ii1 F. "Pete" J\Iitchof their production line which has !or Frederick Kellogg. one of the former shipyard building for packing cll. 33 years in the bt:siness. is in the mechanized the procedure to such a famous defense attorneys in the Tea- !r U iU . oint that the fish arc touched by pot Dome scandal. Herrick soon I purposes. the company is thoroughly throes of bis !'e,·enth experience of hand only twice in the entire pro- branched out into other activities in remodelling an adjoining b~ildi~1g, this sort. In aadition to on-the-job cess. Tne plant has 1.wo cutting ma- Ne-.v Jersey where he operated a V i'!.: V ~ on Bowery Street for a combmat10n super\"ision of the big remodeling chines capable of processing a ·cotal woodyard. shipped carloads of of us2s. including office facilities and project being carried out by Stewart of 100 bushels per hour of sea her- Christmas tree into Newark and IO EI rest rooms. r-: vVil!iams, Augusta contractors. ring._mackerel. 9r alew~v,es. The,ran an old_-gold redeeming_office_in yarQUU( ;eVQ Or On the first floor of the packing Mitchell has a heudache trying to n:iachmes. manufactured b). ~he Co!l- ~he same c1ty. He retu~ned w lVIame plant will be the flaking and drying complete modernizing of the resitmental Can Co.. cut the head off. 1934 and got a start l~ the_ lumber0 room and shipping facilities. Trucks dence at 66 Bowery Street. aero 'S cut the stomac~ open and co1:1ple!ely ing. His first partnership with Allen ____ will con\'ey the finished product::; to from the new plant, \\hich he and clean the fish m one operat10n. The I was in 1939 when the two joined the Maine Central freight house in his family have already mo, ed into. bulk _of the canning d_oi:e by ·.he forces to operate a blueberry canBath-The new Bath Canning Com- Bath for rail. shipment to market. "Pete'' comes to Bath from South:plant is sea herrmg and 1t 1s empl?Y- nery. pany, first of its kind in the Ship- The new second floor will house the west Harbor. 35 mg at present people. Dur:n~ Although the two are pa_rtners in buildiz:ig City. is well along on re- pacbng and sealing rooms and the Calvin L. Stinson of Prospect Har60 heavy runs people may be nec:d the fish cannery, both are rival com- 1 modehng one of the largest build- third floor will be used. for the time f bor is president of lhe Bath Canning 1 Company. adding to his laurels in an ed. petitors today in the lumber and ings on the Bath waterfront. the first being, for storage. At present th€ U. S. Government wocd-pulp business. Each thinks a step in the company's plans to operis taking 40<, of the plant's output. great deal of the other: but would not ate eventually the largest packing "Government buying will yrobably hesitate to beat his partner in a good plarit in Maine. The $125.000 project continue." says E. S. Herrick other lumber deal.. is making practically a new building p~rtner i_n the business '·but -2ven ' "It's all in the spirit of free com- of the former Texas Steamship Comwithout it we could stand on our petition and private enterprise," says pany's layout shed and rigging and own. Because of shortages. ·che Herrick. mould loft annex. a 176 x 65-fooi American public has turned to e_at• wooden. steel-framed structure at ing fish products and learned to hke the North End cf Bath.
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A ne v cament .Grst floor has been laid and an entirely new second floor built. the building ha\-ing originally been designed with only one inbetween floor, and that at an extremely high level. A two-story boiler room annex has been added to the v.raterfront side of the building and a sluiceway run 500 feet to the whar Yes. which are being completely rebuilt, along with a new pump house and salt room. The new plant will boast of the first and only elevator in an establishment of this kind in the State, in line with the company·s aim of having the most modern plant as well as, eventually, the largest.
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For the present. a 150-horsepower ' industry in which he has had long boiler plant will be installed in the I experience and consist<nt success. ne,vly built annex. Difficulties in ob- He is President of the Stir.son Cantaining equipment will prevent im- ning Company at Prospect Harbor , .,, mediate installation of high speed and has been operating the Addison fj,.. sealing machines, but these will be Packing Company at Southwest Har' placed in operation as soon as they bor for m8.ny years. Treasurer of the are available. The pioneer elevator new firm is Glenn A. Lawrence of 1will carry fish from the sluiceway Belfast. who, like Stinson. has a long to the second floor packing room. and outstanding record in the pack' The elevator will be of the hydraulic ing busine s. type. The property acquired by the Bath Two sardine carriers will supply Canning Company. wh_ich also inthe new plant and they will be dis- eludes a large garage ?n t~e ~owe_ry charged in from 50 to 60 minutes by Street level. was a shipbulldmg site an eight-inch pump, into the sluice- for more than a _century. T,he last lway on the first floor. firm to oc_cupy 1t was th_e. Texas ,..., j Steamship Company, a subsidiary of Flens call for emplo;rment of 84 the noted oil company, which pur'.,,, i packers at the st~rt'. with operators chas~d the area between Front and , .,,, 1scheduled _to begm m AuguS t • Two Bo wery Streets and the Kennebec • ~ore car_ners are ~ventuaHy to be I River in 1916 and erected a large mstalled rn the packi_ng room a nd th e and modern steel shipbuilding plant. , nrn:1bcr ~f r.,a~kers mcreased to 2.,0 ~ A total of 35 ocean gojng and coastal , ~ , which w 1ll give th e firm a lar .,e tankers and tu...~s were launched from number of rackers than are curren_t- the Texas Steamship Company·s ly employed by any oth~r cannery 111 ways iu World --war One, including the State. In full operatwn tfi.e corn- 15 big carriers of 416-foot 1enath and pan:;: will employ 200 women and a 6.800 gross tonnage. ., • maximum of 100 men. The yard was idle from Hl21 until 1 ; 1928 when the McC1intock-Marsha]] • t I Company. l;rnµde rs of the Carlton Bridge superstructUr€. leased a part ft" ' of the property for construction of ~ the gigantic spans of the $3,000.000 I bridge over the Kennebec. The ' n ·spans were rolled onto barges and floated from the property nearly _a ' mile. anchored over the piers, and
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Camden-Rockport Area New England Fishermen Surplus War-Time Face New Fig·ht for Ex istence !Uarine Eqoipmeny Becoming Buoy, Trap Center By Law rence J. t-tart Over 1,200 Buoys and 62 ,000 Laths (The problem of foreign fish. imports concerns every fisherma n . Lawrence J. Hart, a native of Maine, is today Secretary of the Gloucester Fisheries Association and recently testified before the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries at lN'ash in gton .-Ed.)
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By Le,v Deitz are in fact the only outfit that tur ·with the coming. "(,,vo years back. out buoys on a yea·r-round ba sis. P-;. Are you by any chance looking for of the Maine Coast Sea Food Cor- cording to Lee. the day when a lo Weather-heaten fishermen of New States is the logical market to which marine gear such as outboard mo- poration to .Rockport, that salty little sterman can afford to take time England and the North Atlantic who to export and the recent heavy shiptors, Diesels, diYing equipment, town on the Penobscot sat up and hew out his o·w n buoys with an ax go down to the sea in ships to supply ment from Iceland is pointed to as propellers. propeller shaft bearings, shook itself all oYer. Today. Rock- . is gone. The machine made a rticle , food fish for this Nation's table, possible beginning of an increasing pumps. compressors, 3-piece collap- port is one of the lobster centers of • cheaper and better and his expanc along with thousands of seafood deluge of fish that w ill pour into this sible oars. winches, boats-all the Maine and with allied industries ing business seems to bear o ut t workers, are facing a new fight for country from now on. way from skiffs to sea-mule tug- springing up there. and in the imme- statement. existence. This time, acco rding to The present trade agreement be- boats. diate vicinity, it is fast becoming leaders of the industry, th e fight is tween the United States and Canada, And that seems t o be the case wi the center of the lobster trap and traps as well. Hawkins and Farnu not with the "ole davil sea", but with which became effective January l , This gear and much more of pasthe economic oreg of millions of 1939 provided for a duty of 1 7 _8 sible fishing u se is included in the b~oy production as well. started sa\ving out lobste r laths ~ pounds of. frozen fish fillets flooding cents per pound for \nets of cod, war surplus property now being sold. The new firm of Hawkins and Far- May at his mill in Northport a American markets from Canada, haddock, hake, pollack, cusk and In gen~ral, sales of the goods are in num is a case in point. Lee Hawkins, they're now cutting 12,000 laths Newfoundland, and Iceland. rosefish, limited in any calendar I the hands of the Office of Surplus released from the Bath Iron Works w liiek and enough bows. yokes an Millions of dollars will be lost to year to 15 million pounds or 15 per- Property'. branch _of_ the War Assets after the woc, turned for a spell to sills to go with them. They're .shi:r: this New England industry if this cent of the average annual consump- Corporat~on, s_ubs1diary of th_e Re- fishing lobster to get the iron filings ping traps all up and down the 'as deluge of f°oreign fish continues. tion in the three previous years, construct10n Fma_nce Corporat10n. If out of his lungs. He built a stri'1g of and as far south as l\'Iassachu,;et • Fishing interests throughout New whichever is larger. Imports over you are re~lly 1~terested, all you traps and turned out his buoys on · Right now they haye an outstan~in. England and along the Atlantic coast this amount are at the rate of z 1-2 have to do 1s write the nearest of- the lathe in his shed. The boys in order from a firm in the Bay St ' are uniting in a struggle to stem this cents per pound. fice at Washington-Essex building, the cove liked the buoys and asked for 20,000 square pots. the type the: tidal wave and are determined to 600 Washington St., Boston 11, Mass. Lee to turn out a few for them So seem to prefer in that neck of th carry their pleas, if need be, direct Leaders in th e i nd u st ry point out Daily bulletins listing sales by all he began turning out lobster bu.)ys woods. th to Congress and to the Departmen~ at if th is increase in duty was in- governmental agencies are issued by in his spare time. Soon he found And down the co,·e in Rockpor of State. tended as a deterrent against im- Bidvertiser, 303 West 42 St., New himself turning out buoys and lob- \ N .Teil Gray has just built h imself • Heads of New England fishing porting above annual quotas, th is York 18, from whom you can get a stering in his spare time. Before a :-:!tap on the water front. Just a s so . t· d purpose has not been accomplished. sample copy on request. month was out he discovered that he as he gets power which he cxpec firms, fishing associa ions an The 1944 quota was 18,210,658 pounds. nd One source easy to check, and. r.ad no spare Ume at all. He had a before the end of the summer, he unions, and representatives a Imports that year were over 24,500,be cutting laths and employing fol\ industry from New York and Vir- 000 pounds. In 1945, the quota was worth watching, is the United States lively little industry on his hands. Now, after six months. Lee and his men to swell the growing industr th ginia, appeared recently before e 17,668,311 pounds; total imports that Maritime Commission, which is sellpartner Stuart Farnum, also out of And just below in Camden , an ol ing equipment direct to the user and Committee on Merchant Marine a nd year exceeded 43,000,000 pounds. Fisheries at Washington, and urged will send you a copy of its catalogue, the Bath Iron Works, employ four pot producer. the Camden Shipbuil that either an over-all year quota That the commercial fisheries of the Marine Surplus Seller. Write men and with three lathes going ing and Marine Railways Compan limit be set immediately on fillet im- this country cannot expect to com- Materials D isposal section, U. S. they are chiseling out 1200 cedar is cutting 50,000 trap laths a wee ports from these countries, or a flex - pete with the fisheries of these coun- Maritime Commission, Washington lobster buoys a week-anything from This end of the business languish ible schedule established under tries to the North is apparent from 25, D. C . A recent issue listed such a special 7x14 pot buoy for use during the feverish war days whe1 which imports could be regulated in statistics presented at the Washing- items as seal-beam 12 volt or 24 volt where the tides run fast to the regu- Camden Ship worked on war con relation to domestic production so as ton hearings. The price of fish is signal searchlight at $10; 100 pound lar stock item-all delivered com- tracts. Now under the manageme to give reasonable protection to the lower in these countries, about half Danforth anchor at $25; a 30-foot plete with oak spindle and painted of •·Pete" P eterson, this lucrativ1 commercial fisheries of this country. what fishermen are paid in New steel cabin-type lugger, built in according to specifications. Just last sideline is being nursed back t1 Failing in this, it was emphasized E ngland. Wages are lower. T he pre - 1944, powered by a 100 horsepower week they shipped 400 of these spcci - health. Handicapped for a time b t hat the New England fisheries faced vailing av!rage wage for fillet cut - Chrysler marine engine capable of al b:toys to Frenchboro and are material shortage, they now havi eventual ruin. t ers in New England is $1.00 per 15 k not s, crew capacity 4 men, for workmg on an order of a thousand their own lumber operation and a going ahead full steam into the tra1 $2,000; metal tank floats which might for C. Rich in McKinley, Maine. be suitable for use as a saug or re The firm of H awkins and Farnum business. movable floating dock from $10 to The following figures show the growth of imports of filleted fish $50. from 1939 to 1945: N ewfoundlan d Veterans have first prflference afTotal Iceland and Labrador. Canada ter government depar tments. You -46,420 l bs .• 9,426,285 lbs. 12,800 lbs. 1939 9,367,065 lbs. can get your priority by writing the 1,402,000 lbs. 43,169,000 lbs. 1945 37,829,000 lbs. 3,938,000 lbs. Boston office listed above. Certain military and naval instalOver 350 % Increase Over 300 % Over 8000 % Over 10,000% lations have been permitted to sell material direct from their location. For example, Dow Field at Bangor Recent testimony at these Hear- hour. in these other countries from already has had several sales of surjngs showed that fillet imports from 40c to 78c per hour. The p r evailing Canada, Newfoundland and Iceland atverage wage for general help in plus material which included v ises had increased 357 percent from 1939 New England is 80c per hour (male), and other small tools handy for a • to 1945-; or in actual poundage from 65c per hour (female); in these other workshop. countries, general help (male) is 9,42G,2'85 to 43,169,000. I n 1945, New O ut of the three hundred billion England produced 132,000,000 pounds paid from 35c to 60c per hour, gen- dollars worth of goods with which we of the same species of fillets. I m - eral help (female) from 26c to 50c fought the war, there is some forty ports from these three countries in per hour. The average cost of pro- billion dollars worth of several 1945 were more than 32 percent of cessing fillets in New England is 3c thousand different items which now New England·s production of these per pound compared to 2c in Canada, is surplus property. and a still lower cost in Newfoundfillets. The latest report of the U. S. Cus- land and Iceland. toms Service shows t hat 12,306,549 The difference in rate of exchange pounds of fillets entered this country favors these countries. F or i nstance, Wall and Wilson Say from Canada, Newfoundland and Canadian skinl ess cod fille t s ent er Iceland during the first three months this country at present at t he price Sardines Slow of this year. A ccording to M r. Hart, of 24 1-2 cents per pound. T he 10 if this same rate of increase car- percent difference in the ex change McK inley- Alvin Wall and S herStuart Farnum, left, and Leland Hawkins load a truck with lobster ries through to December 31 of this rate returns to the Canadian pro - ril Wilson, captains of the sardine buoys manufactured at their Rockport shop. year, it will mean total impor ts from cessor in Canadian dollars, a pproxi- boats Roamer and Fish Hawk of Mcthese three countries of around 70,- mately .0245 additional fo r each K inley agreed recently that this 000.000 pounds, which will be more pound of fillets he sells in this coun- spring has been a poor one for sarthan half of New England's total try. This about equals the d uty. dines. production of fillets. T he two captains work for the WilArrival in New York on March 26 Adding the exchange rat e differof the ss Brauarfass from iceland ential to the advantages t h e Cana - liam Underwood plant located at Mc,.,·ith more than 2,000,000 pounds d ian processor has in view of lower K inley. E. B. Reed, assistant superof cod and haddock fillets indicates prices paid for fish, lower labor and tendent for t hat plant, said that processing costs, gives him a present from May 22 until t he end of June the alarming extent to which foreign over-all advantage over American they had received 86,000 bushels of fish now is flooding American mar- processors of approximately 10 cent s sar dines. kets. This one shipment alone was per pound on fillets before landed in nearly one-third more than Iceland's this country. P rocessors in Newtotal export of fillets to this coun- foundland and Iceland would have a trawlers. Newfoundland now has 17 try last year. still greater advantage. freezing and cold storage plants opLeaders in the inductry fear that erating and that Government recentstill larger amounts of processed That Canada, Newfou nd1a nd a nd ly declared its intention to assist in frozen _fish are destined to reach this !cela nd ~?w are capable of pro~~c- further development of the frozen country during the coming months. mg additional enormous quantities fish industry by an investment of Last year Britain purchased 91 mil- of fis~ th at can fur ther flood our $4,000,000. Figures show Iceland has lion pounds of frozen fillets from A1:1encan d marktt';ts fia~d. ev~nt~a~! 62 freezing and cold storage plants Canada, Newfoundland. and Iceland. rutind~urth amt est· ic s e_nes ist tihn l- . with a processing capacity of over Britain already has served notice ca e . m . e es imony given a ~se i 1,350,000 pounds of fish per day. she ,vill purchase no frozen fillets ~eanngs m r~ga rd to the ex~answn Iceland has more than 1000 vessels 1 from Iceland this year and it is un- 11: _fi~h producmg a nd ~rocessmg fa- in its fishing fleet; 30 new stream derstood similar purchases from Can- ci~itles th:at took place in th ese coun - trawlers are on order from Great ada and Newfoundland will be sub- tries dunpg th e war. Britain and about 100 motor vessels stantially reduced. F rom the view Canada increased its fishing fleets from 35-85 tons are being built. A few of t he differe nt size lobste r b uoys tu rned out on Haw ki ns a~ point of these countries, the United substantially, including large type The fisheries of New England and Farnum's lathes at Roc kport. the North Atlantic, traditionally looked upon as this country's oldest industry, began more than three cen' turies ago. It has developed down • through these years through the sheer pioneer spirit of its hardy fishermen who have faced the winEAST BOOTHBAY try winds of the North A tlantic and Boston braved enemy submarine warfare in MAINE two major wars t o help supply this ---ALSO--country with food. Their plea, which is echoed by PORTLAND, NIE. ROCKLAND, ME. thousands of seafood workers in the industry, is the opportunity to con!uifders of Yachts and Fishing Vessels tinu e to worlt for their livelihood on We carry a full line a reasonably fair- competitive !:>asis of All Sizes and Types for _ with these countries to the N of gear, including the and they look to their Governm ent t:o. Great Grimsby haul for over 100. yea rs. i' _p rov 4fe t he necessary contr ols over , these increasing fish _imports no,.,;., , ciU types of draggers tloridirg the c1;,r:k::!ts of .~is c:)u::tcy. 1
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0VElTY lOBSTERPINS CONSUMPTION OF ALL SARDINES IN THE U.S.A.
ROVE POPULAR
8 COLOR LOBSTER DISPLAYS AVAILABLE
SMN-YEAR PERIOD 1935-1941 (BOTH DOMESTIC AND IMPORTED)
1ught In Quan tities By Many .sSta urants and Reta il ers
CONSUMPTION
Fu rnished To Wholesale-Re tail Dea lers, Resta urants and Hotels
IN POUNDS
The novelty State of Maine lobster pin first distributed in 1945 by the :.\faine Development Commission in the intere-et of the Maine Department of Sea & Shore F isheries has proved a ·.:J'en-strike." It is a red plastic lobster, clasped to a heavy white 3·• by 4·' card printed in Maine blue and red, with the j following wording: "To you our guest. The lobstermen of l\'1aine a~k you to accept this lobster pin as a reminder i.o always order genuine State of Maine lobsters." As illustrated on this page ;he card also bears the State of Maine lobster trade-m2rk in the lower corner -.,;ith the wo!'ding: "We serve only genuine State of Maine lobsters.''
DOMml( SAROINIS
DOMESTICALLY PRODUCED SARDINES
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Illustrated below in miniature. is the lobster display which the Maine Development Commission produced for our lobster industry and has been I 2,880,711 161,194.177 distributing to wholesale and retail I purveyors during the past year. The I display, reproducing an original oil 11,791.040 149,190,321 I painting of a typical Maine lobsterI man in his dory, was done by the 9,150,160 105,602,215 ; famous marine artist, Revere E. "\Vis1 tehuff. It was designed for floo:·, counter, wan, or window placement. 8,885,398 168,465.471 is lithographed in eight colors, stands 33 inches high. 26 inches wide, and is varnished for brilliance and 2,433,650 I01.924,471 surface protection. 10,353,553
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That this outstanding display has been effective in promoting Genuine State of Maine lobsters ~3 eyi:~ :nc2d by the fact that over 5.000 haYe ::.1ready been requested by, and distributed to. wholesale and retail seafood dealers, restaurants. hotels, chain stores, and super rn.arkets throughout the Eastern half of the United States. This distribution largely resulted from display adver-
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NE\VS and other \ Above is shown one from a series year period prior to our entry in the , per cent while the total imports publications during the past yeru·_ of charts, prepared by the Maine , World War, from 1935 to 1941. The decreased 31 million pounds during The Fisheries Council. enthusiastic De-:elopment Commission in cooper- ! picture stops with 1941 because of these same years. about the display. has placed samation with the Maine Department of Ilack of data on the minor volume of It should be noted that the war Iples in their offices. publicized it in Sea & Shore Fisheries, which were I imports and exports for later years, had already started in Europe in the I their bulletins and contacts v,iith the shown leaders in the Maine sardine due to war conditions. last two years represented and ·ihere- , trade and food editors, with the reindustry at a recent meeting hcid at The chart graphs. on the left, the fore few foods were being exported sult that· se,-eral hundred have been the State House in Augusta, with total of domestically produced <jar- from these countries. distributed under their sponsorship_ Gov. Hildreth. State officials and dines fur this period: in the center, It is interesting to note that during Right now they can be seen in a . . . I members of the Maine Development importations of all sardines. The this 7 year period domestic produ.c - prominent display in some of the _--Qngmally fifty th0 usa nd of ,:h~se Commission in attendance. table of figures on the right shows tion accounted for an average of 77 most famous seafood restaurants in pms were manufactured and dis. • • N y k · t __, t d d , • 1945 Th d d . This chart is one of many prepared ( 1) our American product10n of per cent of our total consumpt10n ew or , Washmgton, Boston. he bunng t· • e eman. foI in a comprehensive study of both Maine sardines and California pil- while importations of sardines pack- Philadelphia, Baltimore and even in thnou em as een .hcon 1nuous ever since . product10n . . . · · · • 01·1 accounted for only · 16.4 per cities as f ar West as Detroit · and and foreign 1mchards (2) importations .of sardmes j ed m th e s u pp1y b e1 g rap1.dly ex h auste d. domestic . . graphic . comparisons pac k e d m • 01-1 an d w1·th ou t 01-1 and cen t an d 1mporLa • t·10ns no t 1n • 01·1 a. - 6 ch·icago. .._.t t f d. t .b t· portat10ns, with b y quant.1 y reques s or 1s n u 1011 . . . . j ) ._ · · · the pos1t10n of our Mame sardme (3 Lhe total American conswnpt10n. per cent. A limited supuly of the State of to 0o-uests b y sea f oo d res t auran t s. of • d t . . ~ _,, c t· ·t ·11 b · prominent hotels and t . h O1 1 m us ry m re1at10n w the output onsump 1011, 1 w i e seen, 111The basic d:ita from which this Maine lobster displays is still aYailand retail seafood deale:s. w esa e ~alifornia pilc~ards a1:d American cr;ased from ~36 million po:-inds in chart \.Vas prepared was provided by able. Each is packed in a corrugated So popular is the novelty that, 1mpo~ts of foreign sar?111e packs: 193~ to 163 m1l110n pounds 111 194~, the Bureau of Foreign Commerce shipping _container and will be sent with our supplies exhausted ._ This chart (No. 6 1n the series) an mcrease of 20 :A.er cent over this and Navioation and the Fish and by prepaid express or parcel post to 0 nent restau~·ants· in some of ·tt: f~atur~s the cons_umption of ~11 sar- period. Consu11:ptio1: of doine:otically Wildlife S~rvice of the United States I any s_eafood dealers or restalITants ger cities :have been purchasing -~hese dmes m the Umted· States for a 7 produced sardines mcreased by 60 Department of the Interior. handlrng or serving State of Tuiaine - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - , lobster. 1
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FArvtous NEW YORK SEAFOOD RESTAURANT FEATURES STATE OF MAINE LOBSTER \" 11NDOW ... A famous seafood restaurant, one cellent piece of advertising for State of the best known in New York. is of Maine lobsters. located as it "The Fishery", located at 2 West the center of the fashionable 46th Street. Just off Fifth Avenue Avenue district. and a popular rendezvous for sea,, food lovers, here State of Maine lob, sters are served exclusively. At the request of the proprietors, the Maine Development Commission prepared an enlarged blow-up 6 ft. by 4 ft. of the State of Maine 8-color window display which was made the center attraction of the windows shown in the illustration below. It featured lobster traps, nets and a large display of live State of Maine lobsters on ice. This attractive display was kept in their winaows by :'The Fishery·' for over three months. It attracted wide attention and proved to be an ex0
p"°fns themselves in large quantities of 5, 10 and 20.000 lots. ·where ·,he restaurant or seafood dealer is· paying for the pins his name and address is printed in the lower lefthand corner under the wording: "Compliments of.'j Among well known hotels .and restaurants specializing in State of Maine lobsters v. hich have ordered pins, are Union .,Oyster House of Boston, Hotel Highland, Springfield, Mass., and Penobscot Fish Co .. Rockland, l\'1aine. and many others: Orders for over 42,000 additional pins are already on file. Pins are aYailable for purchase at $57·.50 per thousand F O B Factory and where special printing on the cards is reQUlred, a minimum of 5,000 pins must be ordered at a time. Few novelties in the seafood in.... ustry 11ave been so popular as these State of Maine lobster pins.
Change of fl.ddress from Boothbay Harbor to AUGUSTA
Communications addressed to the Maine Department of Sea & Shore Fisheries after this date should be sent to the Department's new address-
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MARITIME ACADEMY SHIP ARRIVES AT CASTINE I
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Advertiser Page Advertiser - '!lag Lenza, Sam ....... . .......... . Allen Insurance Agency . . . . . . . . 20 Maine Coast Fisherman ........ ~ Anchor Lunch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Maine Coast Sea Food Corp .... . Anderson , A . L . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Maine Fish Meal Co. . .. ..... , .. Army, U. S .................... 23, Maine Development Commission Bangor Hydro-Electric Co. . . . . . 7 Maine Sardine Parkers Ass'n Inc. Barter, R. K . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Manset Marine Supply Co. . ... . Bath Iron Works .............. 18 Marine Railway & Repair .. .. . . . Baxter, H . C. & Bros. . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Belfast Packing Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Marine Service Inc. . ... .... .. . . McLoon, A. C. Co .. ... .. . ..... . . Bicknell Mfg. Co .. ........ . ... . 11 Medomak Canning Co. . .. ... .. . Boston Fish Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Mullans, Fred ..... ......... .. . Brewers Association . . . . . . . . . . . 22 New England Trawler EqiupBrown Bros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 ment Co . . . .... . ......... . . J Camden Shipbuilding and MaO'Hara, F. J. & Sons, Inc . ..... . rine Railway Co. . . . . . . . . . . 3 O'Hara, F . J. & Sons, Inc ....... . Caterpillar Diesel Engine Co. . . . . 7 Peacock, R. J. Canning Co. : . . . . Central Maine Power . . . . . . . . . . 10 Pine Tree Products .......... . Chesebro, Robbin& & Graham . . . 2 Rice Bros. Corp .............. : . Cummings, Bros .... ~- .......... 23 Rockland Packing Co .. . ...... .. . 12 Daniels Jewelers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 The 12,000-ton Sirona docks at the l\laine Maritime Academy wharf at Castine. The big training shlp, Royal River Packing Co ........ i r: Eastern Commission Co. . . . . . . . . 26 formerly a Navy attack cargo vessel, has t"•in-screw turbo-electric drive and makes 20 knots. She will iake Sample, Frank L. Jr., Inc., .. ... . _l Eastern Fire Equipment Co .. ... 21 :Jlipshipmen from the Ac:-.demy on training cruises all over the world. Sargent Lord & Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 General Seafoods Corp. . . . . . . . . 16 By Tony Butler though the home port of the Sirona She will soon undergo conversion Goudy & Stevens .. ... . . .. . .... 21 Sawyer, H. M. & Sons Co . . . ... .--: l will be Castine, she will be used to a training ship with classrooms Castine-Still clad in her wartime Scheel, Henry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Green Island Packing Co. . . . . . . 12 coat of grey and carrying speedy jointly by the Maine Maritime Aca- and additional equipment for the Southwest Boat Corp .......... . Harris Company, The . . . . . . . . . . 2 :'!at-bottomed landing craft, the 426- demy and the Massachusetts Mari- purposes of instruction, and living time Aca·demy and will be taken on quarters will be done over for maxiHawkins & Farnham ... . ... ... 26 Southworth Machine Co .... .... 11 rnot S. S. Sirona, listed until rethree-months' cruises to different I mum comfort. She will be manned cently as attack cargo ship number Hendel, Geerd ..... .. . . . . .. . . .. 19 Sparkman & Stephens ........ . entirely by midshipmen from the ..;3 of the United States Navy, sailed parts of the world. Herrick & Allen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 The Sirona augme,1 ts the present Academy. On board, the students from Boston on June 13 and arrived Thorndike Hotel fleet at Ca~tine which includes one will put into practical application Hotjgdol'). Bros ......... .. ..... . 14 the following morning at Castine Universal Motors . . .. ...... . .. . where she joined the training fleet 110-foot sub-chaser for training in , f~r a full_ three months all the the~- Hunter Machine Co ..... . . : . .. . 22 piloting and celestial navigation on 1 ne~ prev10usly lea~ned about nav1_- Jordan, W. S. Co ........ .... .... 10 of the Maine Maritime Academy. Waldoboro Shipyard .......... . week-end cruise,s, one 60-foot tug ~ahon. ~argo handhng, watch.-_stan.dUnder the over-all direction of Cap- used for shorter cruises three sail- mg, mamtenance and operation of tain R. F . Gray, USMS, of Castine, boats of the Dark Harb~r class, and the engineering plant. ~kippered by Cadet-Commander G. ..,........,,- - Officers and men are pleased with I. Smith of Gardiner and manned by three p\6).ling boats used for basic training in rowing. their new ship and are looking forto midshipmen from the Maritime Secured to the new pier built by ward to their first cruise scheduled Academy. the 12.000-ton ship made the Academy midshipmen, the Siro- to start i.n December or January. 1:1e trip in 14 hours. The Sirona is not yet open to pubThe sleek 20-knot ship, which has na is an imprt>ssive sight. 0£ all her modern wartime equipment only lie insP.ection. :plied the waters around Japan and .. The Maritime Academy was estabt the Philippines, caused a turn-out of guns have been removed. Telephone connections throughout the vessel lished by the Legislature to provide practically the entire population of Castine. For Castiners it was an are complete; the most modern radio sea-minded young men in Maine an e\·entful spectacle. because the Si- and radar equipment is in perfect opportunity for thorough education rona is the largest ship ever to tie working order. She has the latest in preparation for a career as officer Sperry gyroscope equipment and is in the U. S. Merchant_Marine. Grad·up to a dock in Castine Harbor. uates obtain licenses as Third Mate Previous to the arrival of the Si- entirely air-conditioned. • Life rafts and hundreds of life preor Third Assistant Engineer. :rnna. Castine had been visited only ty ~uch coastal ships as the Pema- servers are still aboard. Even herc;uid. the Golden Rod and J. P. Mor- metically sealed cans of K-rations :::an's yacht Corsair, which according and cans of material for making to Commander Gray. could "easily protective smoke screens lie un- Dragger Getting 1,e placed on the deck of the Sirona." touched in their racks. New Fathometer Designed for invasion use; the--btg In the absence of Rear Admiral J. ,,-. McColl, Jr.. commander of the twin-screw ship has separate engine _,Iaine Maritime Academy, Com- rooms. each containing complete· Stonington Richard Billings· .-:-iander W. C. P . Bellinger, Jr., exe- turbo-electric drives so that if one dragger. the Rose W.. is having a c;it i\·e officer of the Academy stated engine is put out of commission the fathometer installed at the Stoning. 1.b.at the Sirona hacl recently been ship can still continue safely under ton and Deer Isle Yacht Basin. The ~ransferred by the U. S. Navy to the the other engine. She is equipped fathometer is manufactured by Subr . S. Maritime Service for use as a with tele-motor electric steering and marine Signal Company of Boston. t:-aining ship for midshipmen. Al- electric winches and windlass. Billings is skipper of the Rose W. •
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COMPLETE NEWS QF TH£ MAINE COMMERCIAL. FISHERIES
w Compo y ~Enters Promising George Billings Says Stonington Yard For -Sale Metal BoaY Construction Field , • Aluminum Boat Co. at Waldoboro
Now Producing Metal Sloops
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View of the Stonington and Dee r I sle Yacht Basin shows from left t o right, machine shop, large 180 x 84 f oot building, shed w ith office and sales store in front, four storage sheds ca pable of handling si:x to eight medium- sized boats, a nd carpenter shop a,nd sa w-mill. Yar d can build six boats up to 140-foot long and numbe r of s m a ller j obs.
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Sea and Shore Dept. Advocates Civil Service Code for Wardens Augusta-All Sea and Shore Fish- sonnel Board. An examination was eries w ardens are now employed held at the State House last week to through channels of the State Per- choose a supervisor for district No. sonnel Board, after competitive ex- 1, wbich is the area from Freeport aminations, and Chi€£ Warden Dan to Kitter y. Mallow states that it is the desire of Referring to the inadequate penthe department to set up a Civil Ser- sion system and the long hours Comvice code similar to that of the State missioner Richard E. Reed said rePolice •and the Department of Inland cently, "In view of this situation it One of the Southwest Boat Corp's popular 32-foo te rs knifes through· Fisheries and Game. Such action is hard to 1nterest m en in wardens the water at an ea~y 15 knots. The yard is building sizes of th is type and would have to be authorized by the jobs at low salaries and lon g hours, has just announced the a ddition of the 42-footer to t his lfne. Legislature, according to Malloy. especially w hen, regardless of years Southw est Harbor-With the an- 12-foot beam and a four-foot draft Under the proposed set--up the of service, they must work until 65 nouncement of the Offshore 42-Foot- and able, seaworthy -l ines. wardens w ould be perm itted to r e- years of age befo re retirement. " One of these 42-Footers is now tire after 25 years of service . "The "With t he Maine fish eries €Xpan d - · er , the Southwest Boat Corporation fa ct that t he men are subject to call ing daily , it is imper ative that p ro p - of Southwest H arbor adds another building for Stanley Fisheries of 24 hours a day and· have very little er conser vat ion and propagation unique d esign to its already pop ular h er a s a seiner. Another one is buildtime off as compared to other state measures be cc:rried out. This in turn line of fish ing craft. P 6wered with ing for Manuel Zora of Province (employees makes them entitled to calls for greater vigilance and activ- engines of various sizes, the new town, Mass. fUCh consideration," he said. ity on the part of the department boat can easily be rigged fo r various S ix of the opular 32-.foot launches The present age limit for the em- wardens who, in order to carry out kinds of work. are also being built at S outhwest The Offshore 42-Footer can be ad- Boat Corporation. One is f or H'.1rry ployment of wardens is 40 years. S u- their work successfully, must feel pervisors arc now selected by com- ) that they are receiving the same con- apted for trawling, seining, or off- Eskins of Great Cranberry Ishnd petative examinations which are sideration as other state employees." shore lobstering. She can also be (Continued on P age 18) given under the directron of the Per- he continued. used as a smal~ dragger. She has a
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Was Well-known Friendship Boat Builder By Carroll T. Cooney, Jr. Friendship-Winfield Scott Carter, boat builder for over twenty-five years, died at his home in Friendship on the morning of June 2nd. He was fifty-four year·s of age. The son of Levona Carter and the late George Carter, he was born in Bremen, Maine. Early in life he moved to Friendship, where he soon found employment as a ship's carpenter. Not long afterwards, with I h "s father and brothers, he established a boat yard of his own in Hatchet Cove opposite his dwelling The 75-foot d1·a,gger Nancy F. being launched at Hatchet Cove typiof the many fishing vessels built by W. S. Carter during his lifetime.
lronAcadia, 46-foot Alden-designed ketch launches from Sample Yard at Boothbay Harbor for Frank L. Sample, Jr.
a Burmeister & Wayn 10 kw DC generator directly connected with the main engines. Engine room equipment will also include a General Motors 10 kw emergency Diesel generating set. Steering gears and windla~ses, of the hand operated type, will be furnished by Hyde, which will also supply the electric unloading winches. Crew quarters on all 32 trawlers will be forward.
<continuea from Page 17) depth 20 feet 9 inches, and mean draft 17 feet 10 1-2 inches. Boothbay Harbor-Frank L. Sam- Boothbay Harbor, this craft has a Main propulsion engines for these ple, Jr., is the proud owner of a 46- 10 foot beam and draft of three feet 1 big tra':"lers will be 6-cylinder, 4foot auxiliary ketch, the Acadia, de- and features a long open cockpit I , cycle Diesels of 1320 horsepower to signed by John G. Alden of Boston, with small trunk cabin forward be built by Burmeister and Way~ of launched late in June from the housing toilet and storage space. The Copenhagen, Denmark. Boothbay Harbor yard of Frank L. launch is keeled, framed, and floor I They will have quadrant-type Sample, Jr., Inc., and so attractive timbered with oak. Decks are of fir. steering gears built by Baldwin Loto prospective buyers that Frank The cockpit arrangement provides comotive Works and windlasses of had practically to hold 'em off with for seats around the entire area. A I the Hyde electric spur gear type. gasoline engine, direct one hand while he made fast after 651 Gra The Carrier Corporation will furnish Southwest Boatbringing the ketch back into the drive, turns a Columbian wheel. Fuel freon gas type refrigeration systems (Continued from Page 17) wharf under her own power. She capacity is 30 gallons. The launch for the six largest trawlers, the only had hardly hit the water when her was built for use out of the Audubon and three others are for Benjamen ones to be so equipped. Port lights Chrysler Crown gasoline engine was Society·s Bird Lovers' Camp in MusHoffman, Frank Johnson, and Harwill be made by the Torrey Roller Wintielci Scott Uarter, well-known .speeding the ketch at a merry clip. congus Bay. vard Beal all of Southwest Harbor. Bushing Works of Bath. Scheduled for launchmg shortly Friendship boat builder. The medium six's principal dimen- Some of these boats will be powered Sample's ketch has a 12-foot beam and six foot draft. She is clipper by Sample is a 42-foot Diesel cruiser place. And there for nearly twenty sio_ns will be: length overall, 152 feet with a Chrysler Crown engine witn. bowed and her engine, developing building for George Bradley cif Port- years he built all types and sizes of 5 mches; waterline length, 144 feet a 2: 1 reduction gear giving them a 112 horsepower, turns a 2-blade land from designs by Eldredge-Mc- fishing vessels and yachts, including 4 1-2 inches; 137 feet 9 1-2 inches speed of 15 knots. The 60-foot dragger Anthony and 22x12 Hyde feathering propeller Innis, Inc., of Boston. This bua~ is a scores of large draggers, principally between perpendiculars; beam, 27 raised deck type with steering ftafeet 1 inch; depth, 15 feet 5 inches· Josephine recently launched for. through a 1:95 2:1 reduction g.ear. from his own models. Carter-built tions in the main cabin and on the Capt. Anthony Favaloro of Glouce:;mean draft 13 feet 2 5-8 inches. Th~ The electrical system is 12 volts and boats soon became famous from flying bridge. She is planked wi~h 1 Baldwin Locomotive Works will supter, Mass., is now being outfitted at Exide batteries are used. A UniverCastine, Maine, to Montauk Point 1-2 inch cedar, with oak frames, keel, ply the main engines, '750-horsepowthe yard. Present plans call for c1 171 sal 500-watt water-cooled lighting Long Island. For fine workmanship'. and stem. Accommodations consist of plant is installed and exhaust is grace and design, and rugged dura- er Diesels, Hyde the electric unload- Buda Diesel which will drive her at piped into the main engine exhaust a double stateroom, toilet, and lava- bility his boats and vessels earned ing winches, Torrey the port lights, 11 knots. The Anthony and Josepni:--.e .Jine. Keel, stem, frames, floor tim- tory forward; main cabin amidship him the highest reputation among Hyde the electric steering gears, and will be equipped with Fairbanks bers, and horn timber are of oak, with settee running the entire fishermen and yachtsmen throughout Bethlehem Steel he 4-bladed pro- Morse Model Z 32-volt auxiliary genframes being 2 1-2 x 2 on 10 1-2 cen- length of the port side; galley on New England. In building boats Mr. pellers, which will have a diameter erators. Her fish-hold capacity will of 8 feet 10 5-16 inches and pitch of be 50,000 pounds and she will have ters. Planking is 1 1-2" fir, fastened starboard side, with 3-burner presCarter put quality and strength 6 feet 2-' 3-8 inches. This class will be a cruising range of 2,500 miles. with Everdur screws. The Sitka sure alcohol stove, built-in refrigeraahead of profit, and often repeated equipped with Hendy 6-cylinder genAnother dragger is now on the spruce masts were provided by the tor, and so designed that the entire his maxtm: that he would build all erating engines and General Motors ways for John Bindloss of Stoningdresser top forms a smooth surface Pigeon Hollow Spar Company of East Boston. Rigging is stainless when the galley is not in use. A boa ts as though his own son were 20 kw emergency Diesel generating ton, Conn. She will be 70 feet long and will have a Cummins 180-horsesets. steel. Sails were made by the Coon- soapstone fireplace is to be built in taking them to sea. The Carter Yard delivered the Overall length of the smaller traw- power Diesel for main engine. ey Sail Company of Gloucester. for heating this cabin. Aft of the Of the 70 men employed at the Mass. The galley is equipped with a main cabin is another double state- "Saint Joseph III," owned by Captain lers will be 117 feet 7 1-2 inches watroom with toilet and lavatory. BeJohn Zappia of Portland, only a few Southwest Boat Corporation, eight erline length 109 feet 11 i~ches, four burner and oven Shipmat~ gas range, and the galley is compYetely low the main cabin deck is a fuel weeks prior to Mr. Carter's death· length between perpendiculars, 105 are veterans. They are Ellis Bishop, trimmed in Monel. Sleeping accom- compartment housing two '200-gallon apd was engaged in building severai feet, beam 22 feet 6 inches, depth 12 Harold Gonzales, James Goraon, m?dations are provided for seven, fuel tanks and one 250-gallon Monel other boats f<fr Maine owners. It is feet 9 1-2 inches, and mean draft 11 Jrunes Harkins, Archie McEachern, with a double stateroom forward metal water tank. The power plant understood that the Yard has been feet 3 inches. Propulsion engines will George McKay, Steven Spurling and two berths in the main cabin ~ is a General Motors 4-cylinder Model sold and will continue operations un- be Burmeister & Wayn 6 cylinder, Kenneth Walton, all of Southwest single stateroom and two berths' in 4073 Diesel, locater in the extreme der a new name. 4-cycle 570-horsepower Diesels, with Harbor and vicinity. the deck cabin. Cushions and mat- aft section of the cruiser and setresses are Airfoam, supplied by the parated from living accommodations Boston Spring Bed Manufacturing by a double waterproof bulkhead. Company of South Boston . The mis- The propeller shaft is 1¾ inches cellaneous joiner hardware is by E. Tobin bronze and a Columbian proJ. Willis and Wilcox-Crittenden and peller is to be installed. The boat's rigging fittings by Merriman Broth- general design shows an outboard ers. Ground tackle consists of a 40- rudder and dinghy hung in davits pound Danforth Mark II anchor and across the stern. Lighting is 32 volts one of Wilcox-Crittenden's 75-pound and two sets of Exide heavy duty Yachtsmao's. A Navy type hand lighting batteries are to be installed. windlass is installed on the forward Ground tackle is handled by an Ideal deck, equipped to handle 3-8 anchor electric windlass and a 600-gallon chain, of which 60 fathoms is car- P1:1mp ?a1es & Service bilge pump will drive through a 32-vort electric ried. motor in the engine room. MiscelSince sending, the Acadia over laneous hardware is supplied for the board,_ the Sa~ple yard has launcl1- Bradley cruiser by E. J. Willis and ed an mterestmg 36-foot open launch Wilcox-Crittenden and port lights by for the Audubon Society ot N~w the Torrey Roller Bushing Works of York. Designed by Ben Rand of , Bath.
At reeent launching of Sample ketch: In front, Liza, Sample six, daughter of owner, sponsor. Left to right, Sarah Sample, sponsor:s sister, Mrs. Frank L. Sample .Jr., Mr. Sample a.nd his pa.rents, ~Ir. and Mrs. Frank L. Sample, a.Jl of Boothbay Har·b or.
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Thomaston-As her two owners, Andrew T. Habe and Leonard Saunders, cut through the timber on each side that held her to the i ways, the new 88-foot dragger Dol- A.: ~;; phin slid into the water recently ~t \+i, ,, \.the Newbert and Wallace yard m ~ ; i 'Thomaston. • •• ~ While the two partners sawed 1 through the timbers with old-hand expertness, their wives stood ready with the bottle of champagne, each The 95-foot dragger Gertrude D. shown just after she came off the grasping the neck in an arrangement ways at the Newbert and ,vallace yard in Thomaston. She will have fishthey had practiced on a stick of wood hold capacity of 45,000 pounds and was buiH, for ~ptain Horace Devine a few minutes before launching time. of Oak Bluffs, Mass. At the instant their husbands comShe will be operated as a grour,_ pleted the cut, they smashed the aboard an APA in Pacific campaigns fisherman from Dingley Island, Ea.st bottle, and the Dolphin was on her from Cape Gloucester to Okinawa. way as the 20th fisherman to be The two met while assigned to Harpsv;ell, Me. with her home port launched by the yard since it was duty in Boston and laid plans for ·a as Gloucester. The Dolphin was designed by A! opened just before the war in the fleet of fishing vessels. The Dolphin fred Condon of Fairhaven, Mas:;. Gray Boats yard. is the first to be launched. who was at one time the yacht de Both owners will serve aboard signer at Gray Boats in Thomaston their craft to get her started, Habe where both Newbert and Wallac as engineer and Saunders as second were once employed. Malcolm Brewer, master builder at the Camden sh'hibuilding and engineer and on deck. She will be Another dragger, the Gertrude D. Marine Railway yard, is shown, top right, inspecting a new 40-foot sport captained by Alfr~d Schwiller of a 95-footer recently launched by th fisherman witi1 },rank Silonen, leading carpenter. Matty Mollander, carBoston. yard for Captain Horace Devine o penter, and William Goldschmidt, apprentice boat-builder, are setting up The 88-foot Dolphin has a 19-foot Oak Bluffs, Mass., is now being outthe stern below. six-inch beam and is powered with a fitted. 250-horsepower Atlas diesel. She has The Gertrude D. has a fish hold a fuel capacity of 4,500 gallons, and capacity of 45,000 pounds and is an estimated fish hold capacity of powered by a 165-horsepower Gray 135,000 pounds. She will be equipped Marine engine which drives her 81,2 with RCA radio telephone and the knots. She has a 16-foot beam ana latest in Submarine Signal's graphic- draws 7½ feet. type fathometer. Winches are by She will be equipped with radioHathaway with the auxiliary equip- phone and fathometer and will carr. The Camden Shipbuilding and Another-addition to the aluminum ment being supplied by Diesel En- a crew of five. :Marine Railway Co. is rapidly near- boat field will be the 60-foot power Captain Devine expects to have gine Sales of Boston. Ketch rigged, ing completion on an unusual 40-foot cruiser scheduled to begin building her sails were made by Edgar Bohn- her outfitted and fishing by the mic1.sport fisherman. The new boat, schc- for Frank Roncarelli of Montreal. dell of Rockport, Maine. dle of August. duled for launching sometime this This stream-lined all-aluminum els will power both craft and the en- bered with oak and planked with month. is for Earl Boardman of l\Iat- pleasure cruiser was designed by , ..... gines will be bedded in white oak. white cedar and decked with white tapoiset, Mass. indsay Lord of Portland and will ! ¢:1 };.' Maxim Silencer mufflers are to be pine. Philippine mahogany seats are travel at about 22 knots. She will be I K> • installed. Shafts will be of Tobin placed in the well type cockpit be Planked with i.ift-sawn fir, she will powered with General Motors 6-71 i ill':" t be equipped With Everdur fastenings. -bronze. The stern bearing on the low deck level. Mattresses are Good . . h Diese 1s. Mrs. Horace Devine of 9ak Bluffs, yawl will be Columbian Bronze with year Air Foam cover~d with Dupo1: An e1ght-cyl111der 143- orsepower . Chrysler Royal marine engine will ~h~ yard has Just completed re- Mass., christens the dragger Gertrude Goodrich cutless rubber bearing, and Cavalon. A Shipmate 1011 coal rang drive her at 14 knots. A Columbian bm~dmg the MT'shawaka for the D. at the recent Newbert and \Val- on the cutter a Willis bronze casting is used in the galley with surrounc1J Bronze propeller will be used. Mame Coast Sea ~ood Corp. and has lace launching. with Akerite bearing. Both will have ing woodwork covered with John=. completed outfittmg a group of Equi-Flex stuffing boxes, Federal- Manville Asbestos Flexboard. The A similar boat has been ordered yachts for the summer season. Over Habe and Saunders, both of Glou- Mogul two bladed Tru-Pitch propel- sink dresser has a Willis porcelain by C_linton Lunt of Camden. 100 men are employed there today. cester, Mass. and partners in the lers of solid bronze, 18 x 10. Bilge enamelled galley sink set into the corporation which mvns the Dolphin, pumps will be Wilcox-Crittenden top with flush. cover. Bilge pump i:5 are each former Navy commanders. and fuse panels Willis 6-volt instal- by Wilcox-Crittenden. General Seafoods to Habe served as an engineering officer lations. Two Lux hand type carbon A Gray Sea Scout developing 30aboard an AP A in both European dioxide fire extinguishers will be . horsepower is installed and turns Launch Two Oyster and Pacific theaters. Saunders was carried by both yawl and cutter and Peterson 2-bladed 16 x 8 \\Theel. Th Boats Thursday· the latter ill also carry a stand- muffler is a Maxim Silencer. Th 1 ard Pyrene extinguisher. Merriman shaft is Tobin bronze and stern bear Rockland Two 72-foot oyster South Portland-The 45-foot dragger; Brothers are furnishing rigging hard- ing is Goodrich with Hyde stuffin ware and a bronze No. 2 winch for box. Two 1-quart Pyrene fire exboats completed at the Rockland under construction at the South the cutter. The yawl will be equip- tinguishers are carried. Standing rig·shipyard of General Seafoods are Portland Boat Yard for Captain C. scheduled for launching Thursday, E. Collins of Block Island is rapidly ped with a Wilcox-Crittenden 50- ging on the sloop is Hazard KerodEast Boothbay-Roger E. Luke, in pound Yachtsman's anchor, a Herres- less preformed wire rope and runJuly 18. nearing completion and is scheduled The first boat is scheduled to slide to slide into the water any day now. business at East Bocthbay since 1939 hoff 70-pounder, and a 30-pound ning rigging is three strand Sisal into the water at 2:30 p. m. at a pub- Built by Danish-born Carl J. Sev- with the exception of two war years Danforth. The cutter's ground tackle rope. Sails were made by Francis T. lic ceremqny which will mark the erin, who recently leased the old when he was with the Frank .L. will be Wilcox-Crittenden's 60- Luke of East Boothbay, brother of official opening of General Seafoods Davidson yacht yard while waiting Sample, Jr., Inc., yard at Boothbay pound and 75-pound Yachtsman's the builder. Rigging hardware is Merriman. Mast tangs are of Everdur activities in this area. The second ito get space in the former West Yard Harbor, is back in business on the and a 30-pound Danforth. boat will follow a half hour lP,ter. of the New England Shipbuilding Ocean ~oint Road and building a The yawl will carry a 200-foot bronze. Ground tackle consists of a Fred C. Gatcombe, General Seafoods Corporation, the new dragger will pair of 39-footers, auxiliaries with cable of 3-strand Plymouth manila 35-pound Yachtsman's anchor and duplicate hulls. one to be rigged as bolt rope and Tapatco life preservers. 150 feet of three strand Sisal anchor manager here, states the yard will cost approximately $16,000. ' a cutter and the other as a yr1wl. Her compass will be a Kelvin & rope. American Pad & Textile Comopen to the public. . . Both boats will be delivered to-· The 45-footer will be powered w1Ul Luke has just launched another aux- White with K&W deck plate mount- pany furnished the life preservers. Bluepoints, Inc., a subsidiary of Gen- a. General Motors 165 horsepower iliary sloop, a 28-footer, for Harold ing. Luke's future 1946 work includes eral Foods operating on Long Island , diesel, has a 1:!-foot beam and 6-foot C. Keeman of Wellesley Hills, Mass. All framing and inside of planka pair of 23-foot power boats, one a All three are from the boards of Sound. One is named for Greenport, draft. ing on the Warner-designed twins stock model which Luke will use as Long Island, and the other for Mil- : Severin plans to follow this build- Winthrop L. Warner of Middletown. will be treated with Cuprinol. Hull a work boat and the other for lobford, Conn. ing with a 40-foot boat for the Conn. The 39-foot cutter is a dupli- interiors below cabin floors are to stering use by Chester Burnham of Mrs. August McTaggart will span- Brown Ship Chandlery of Portland. cate of the smart craft built by Ll.ke be painted with International Bilge- East Boothbay. sor the Milford. Mrs. J. C. Jensen The Brown Chandlery plans to use before the war for John R. Newell, kote. Paint on the cutter will be 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ,vill christen the Greenport. the boat to carry ship·s supplies to assistant general manager of the Dulux topsides, Murcop anti-fouling The two 72-footers, the first boats vessels in and around Portland bar- Bath Iron Works Corporation. Both on bottom, and International Interthe yawl, building for A. D. Seyto be built at the yard since General bor. mour, Jr., of Ithaca, N. Y., and the lux on boottop. Dulux will be used Seafoods bought the property from • in the interior of the cutter and her Snow Shipyards, Inc., last January, The South Portland Boat Yard cutter are scheduled to go overboard Sitka spruce spars will be finished have a 21-foot six-inch beam and a which offers complete construction late in August. Dimensions of tl,le 39-footers are: with International Interlux. On the draft of 7 1-2 feet. Each is powered and repair service for all types of yawl, topsides will be painted with with a General Motors M71 165 fishing vessels now employs about overall length, 39 feet 9 3-4 inches; Interlux, bottom with Murcop antiINCORPORATED horsepower Diesel which will drive 20 men who have had wooden ship- waterline length, 27 feet 6 1-2 inch- fouling, and boottop with Marbleher at better than 10 knots. Both building experience in various coast- es; extreme beam, 10 feet 1 inch; head anti-fouling. draft 6 feet: Keel frames are of white boats are wooden construction with al towns. NAVAL ARCHITECTS oak and keels will weigh approxiThe Keeman sloop's dimensions sawn oak frames and yellow pine ------YACHT BROKERS planking. Deckhouses 'are pine Scientists have discovered 51 spe- mately 8,000 pounds and will be are: overall length, 28 feet 3 1-2 i!rMARINE INSURANCE sheathed and decking is of fi~. cies of hitherto unknown sea crea- bolted in position with Tobin bronze ches; waterline length, 21 feet 8 inbolts set up on bronze washers. Seches; extreme beam, eight feet seven Thursday's launching will be the tures in shore waters of Peru, infirst double launching at Rockland cluding an "elephant fish" with a lected white oak is going into frames, inches; extreme draft, four feet 10 L II EAST 44TH ST.,NEW YORK floor timbers, and deck beams and 1-2 inches. She is framed and timin many years. \eaf-shaped flexible "trunk." the twin hulls will have cedar planking with extra heavy fastenings. Transoms will be planked with Philippine mahogany with white oak stiffeners. Decking will be white pine, as will the cabin trunks, which will have mahogany hand rails. NAVAL ARCHITECT WALDOBORO, MAINE White oak, pine, and mahogany are being used in the cockpits. The twin BUILDERS OF FINE SHIPS hulls will be ceiled with ash, which YACHTS AND VESSELS will also be used for cabin flooring. I Everdur screws are being used ~ ... FISHING VESSELS TO 120' through and tangs on standing rig-: ging are also o~ Everdur. . _ I PRAGGERS SEINERS LOBSTER SMACKS Inner and outer sheathing 1n the ; WOOD, STEEL AND ALUMINUM 'ALLOY galleys will be of hard finish Mason-• We have complete facilities for buifding and outfitting ite. Areas around the Shipmate No.; CONSTRUCTION all types of wooden boots 1011 coal burning ranges will be protected with Johns Manville asbestos CAMDEN MAINE Flexb9ard. Berth cushions will be WAYS NOW AVAILABLE FOR NEW CONSTRUCT1ON Tel. CAMDEN 451 Gcacl);car Ai~foams covered \\·ith 1 Dupont Ca\'alon. , c;;ray 4_-5,~ stapclarcI eco11omy
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The Use of Aluminum •1n Small Boat Construction
New Rapid-Roller Gravity Conveyor In Production
Manufacture of the Rapid-Roller Gravity Conveyor as ·a new addition B y Geerd Hendel to its line of material handling •··Whistler," a 26 -foot auxiliary equipment is announced by the Raketch sloop of aluminum alloy conpids-Standard Company, Inc., of struction, was designed by the writer Grand Rapids, Michigan. in 1939 and built during the fall of Designed to fill the need for a that year at the Rice Brothers Corp., medium-duty classification standardst Boothbay, Maine. Since then, ized conveyor. the new Rapid-Roller s e has spent one winter and five Conveyor solves cannery handling l o!'lg summer seasons on the water, problems which arise when materials be:ng layed up one year during the with insufficient flai area cannot be war. "Whistler·• has been sailed and moved by wheeltype gravity conKew Rapid-Roller Convey or no w in production designed to handle raced much and hard along the coast veyors. m2-teria ls ,vith irr egular s urfaces s u ch as steel bars, light lumber, or 1rom Penobscot Bay to M~rblehead I On tbe Rapid-Roller Conveyor cans w ith chimes. a .. d has had her share of collisions various types of irregular surfaced and groundings. Yet. today she is in materials such as cans with chimes, inches or any other multiple of the Free movement of materials on bet:e1· condition all around than a kegs, light drums, cartons, crates, number three. turns is made · possible with double vrnoden boat of her age would be. boxes, st eel bars or long and narrow lane curves (available in the 18-inch ~ h ere are numerous aluminum al~..-.~~"""':f· pieces of light lumber can move Carrying out its st a nd a rd izafion standard width.) Single lane curves loy - on the market. but a few only. swiftly and easily along production policy, th e Rapids-S t a nd a rd Com- are manufactured in both 12-inch such as ALCOA 52S. 1 4H. 61ST for lines. pany i nd icates th at th e sta nd a rd Q- and 18-inch widths. p lating and 53S for framing and Rapid-Roller Conveyor is made to Series adjuS t able supports, which Further detailed literature and rivits are suitable for boat construehandle anything with one firm free- originally were manufactured for other information on the new Rapidtion. While these show excellent I running surface. Slightly d~clined use wi th its Rapid-Wheel Gravity Roller Gravity Conveyor may be had resistance against salt water corrosections of the conveyor will carry Conveyor. are a?aptable wi th0 ut by writing to the Rapids-Standard sion, others. especially the alloys of i objects which are heavy enough to change to th e Rapid-Roller Convey- Company, Inc., 342 Peoples National high tensil strene-th used in aircraft move aloncr the rollers of their own or. Portable st a nd s also may be used B k Bld G d R ·d 2 M.1 h" ~ "" with the new roller conveyor. an ' g., ran api s , - c 1con truction, are affected by corroweight, while level lines can be used gan. sion and. if usec.l fo spars. must be 1,VhisHer, 36-foct all-aluminum for storage or to facilitate movement Based on actual tests. with at least ~r~tected __ agains~ salt water. On , sl~op b uilt by Rice B1·0s. Corp., ? eing Iof merchandise by a slight manual three rollers supporting the weight • n1-tler a 36-foot mast extruded ,ailed by her owner and butlder, 1 push. of the material load at all times and BIG CRAB CAUGHT in one piece and with a \Vall thick- Geerc! Hendel of Cam:!en, wenTwo standard frame lengths of 5 with the Rapid-Roller Conveyor sec..BY FISHERMEN" ne_s of 1 8'" has been used very sue- known a u4hority on aluminum boa t and 10 feet in two standard widths tion supported at both ends, the cessfully. It is expected that as soon constr ucHon. of 12 and 13 inches are being made. maximum recommended capacity is TATHRA Australia A crab F orme d o f 16 -gauge stee 1, t h e con- 80 to 100 lbs. per foot of distributed as industrial production gets back to • · c c , 11 2 · h · d. weighing 20 1-2 pounds with a red normal, aluminum alloy masts will l\I' a~·mc Railv. ay ompany. amoen, veyor r? e~·s are me es_ m iame- load or 800 to 1,-000 lbs. distributed and pink mottled body and black become popular with the boat own- Mame has a contract for the con- ter, proJectmg 3/ 8 of an. mch above load per 10-foot section. Rollers nippers was caught in a trawler's er_, because they are st~ong. light. struction of a 60-foot power cruiser th e conveyor f rame level, and are spaced at 3-inch intervals will carry net off the south coast of Ne\v South eve1·-lasting. and lower priced than a_ 11 of aluminum alloy on which wo_ rk mou_ nted ._on . free-_running single-row m_ aterials which have at least g j Wales. It measured three feet, seven wooden spars. 1s to be started as soon as materials radial ball bearings at each end. I mches of smooth running surface. inches from tip to tip. 1 Each roller is secured to the con- _._ Cast aluminum deck fittings of arrive at the yard. • I ALCOA No. 214. such as cleats. To sum up the advantages of alu- .,·eyor frame by a bolt-and-nut tY.pe, cbecks, portlight frames, and run- minum alloy construction we fin_d high carbon steel axle. Ends of each ning lights were installed on "'Whist- the following facts: <1) An alumi- l roller are formed into smoothly ler·• and to date have gi\·en good num boat is absolutely tight. once · curled edges to prevent marring the service and none have ever broken and iorever. all around and at any load being conveyed . nor had to be replaced. time of the season (2) It is not The exclusive new inner design of Since welding aluminum alloys is easily damaged. dented or torn, but the roller includes a steel tube spandifficult and in some instances im- is easily repaired (3) Rot is non- ner bushing with hexagon-shaped possible rivited construction is ap- existant and corrosion is cut to the ends \vhich houses the n:iller axle plied throughout. The material minimum in fresh or salt water <4) and locks the inner race of the bear:. weighs approximately two -thirds Due to high temperature conductivi- ing to preven't its turning while rolless than steel. can be cut ,,:ith wood ty, aluminum boat cabins do not get lers are rotating. This permits simw9rking hand or machine tools. al- excessively hot, are more thoroughly j ple removal of the axle itself from though metal cutting blades produce ventilated and due to the fact that the conveyor frame when changing better results. Bending and shaping the metal does not absorb moisture, spacing of rollers. PORTLAND, MAINE is to be done cold. This indiC:ates are always dry. not damp (5) Motor A uni ue feature of the Rapidthat it should not be attempted to vibration and noises arc not exces- . Roller Conveyor is the "knitted copy typical steel construction in siYe and similiar to that in a wooden frame.. construction as described, aluminum. but. design construction hull. ·which provides that each roller axle, d€tails to suit the material. Rope. sails and other items ,.,·111 by its secure attachment to the .Another item not to be oYer-looJ.:ed ha,·e to be replaced at times. but an frame channel. sen·es as an auxiliary is electrolysis. caused· by dissi:niliar aluminum alloy hull with proper cross-brace anc;l gives a<lditional rimetals. steel or aluminum· hull and motor installation wlll last almost in_ gidity to-the 12 -gauge steel conveyor bronze propeller. submerged in salt defin itive~y. thus resulting in lower frame. \vhich. in itself is strongly water. On a steel \ essel this•elech'O- upkeep co;;t anct"higher resale ·alue. cro,,,s-braced and arc-welded into a lysis can be. in most cases. weakened A \;ell des: gned audBtiilt aluminum single unit. E~{pansion or twisting of sufficiently by application of zinc alloy IJoat is no~ a flimsy or tinny the frame under a max imum load is plates, which divert the electrolytic st,·t cture. Th e material 1s way past thereby solidly prevented. action and gradually are· destroyed the cx ner .m e11tal stage aY!d is ideal Rollers are spaced at 3-inch interin the process. On an aluminum boat for buildi!l~ good, ·seawoM~1y boats vals. bat sections can be ob tained in this is definitely insufficient. and th-:: a t rcasona~lc- cost . ::~=acings of 6 inches. 9 inches, 12 destruction of the hull plating \'.' Cell e be rather rapid. In order to o, er- \~I f I/ i:'.'.• v come this. we have to insulate the motor and propeller shaft fr om the hull. This is to be done thoro:.1ghly j l.,I since the slightest metal to meta l l i; \..(i. -U § B\. ll connection between the t,,·o would The fir t commercial radar in the in basic materials, wartime cxpeditvoid all after insulation. But it has v:orld to be manufactured on a pro'- ing methods were required in order and can be done without difficul:ies duction-line basis has just beer. in- to obtain many components fo-t the and as a result electrolytic action is stalled by the Raytheon !\Ianufactur- operation of this first commercial eliminated. Insulation must be aping Go. aboard the SS Drotwingholm radar production line. In several inplied to auxiliary engines, toilets. of the Swedish-American Line. Sim- stances, it was even necessary -.o etc .. as well. plified design allowed completion of procure for the component manufac140-foot Arctic Rescue Vessel on our No. 1 Railway Several shipyards in Maine which installation and testing in three days. turers the basic materials, such as •are building wood as well as steel With this radar production line now copper and wire. so that they could boats have branched off into alumi- in full operation. it is expected ·,hat , make delivery on time ... num alloy boat construction. Among units will be produced at ~ constantSales and maintenance of the Marthem, the Camden Shipbuilding and ly accelerating rate to meet the ur- , iners Pathfinder is being handled gent needs of the Merchant Ma1·ine ' by Submarine Signal Co .. . Boston, Mars Clutch Co. Looking for radar protection. Mass., marine affiliate of Raytheon Marin'ers . Pathfinder incorporates l\lanufacturing Co .. t~ro~h its ~Id • ' For ,Maine Distributor all the feofures of the famous spip- o'.nces located _at p~rnc~pal marme In a recent letter to Maine Coast search gear of which Raytheon pro- , ports. Th_e Ma~me D1v_~s10n of Ma_c F isherman. George Mars, president duced more units for the J:Tavy than kay Rad1_0 ana Telegraph Co. w_1ll ·of the G. W. Mars Clutch Company. all other manufacturers combined. al~o -+~ontmue as _a!ent for the c;l1~t Inc., West P alm Beach, Fla .. stated fo addition . it has the minimum tnbu.ion and. m_am,enanc~ of Mc\.n -,1 I that his company is looking for a range. simplicity of operation and ne1•3 Pathfinder m the _On~ted_States. distributor to hirndle the Mars Mar- low maintenanc·e -- so necessar for Three methods of d1stnbut10n are ine Clutch in ·the Maine area. :\Ierchant Marine service. Y available. direct sale, deferred sale, 1 : The Mars Company manufactures . •_ . . I and lease sale with complete mainte dutches ,for engines up to and in.- . This rcC:Jmverswn ?f production 1.nance included. Basic cost of tq.e -eluding ten horsepower. They also lmes from the manufacture of a equipment is under seven thousand make a ~ecial one-and-a-half-inch weapon of offense to the manufac- I dollars. Additional accessories, which crankshaU... for the Onan eng:i-ne. ture of _an aid :t?-. 1~?vigafion at sea. j may . be c\ddecl at. ainy Aime include : The Mars Friction Marine Clutch has not been without problems. It remote ~ -repeater . jnd1cator;s. . true ·Ss manufactured for small boats us- has meant a complete change from bearin cr indicators .voltacre stabilizer:s h1g air-co9).ed engines of all make::,. 24-hour• da;y "get it te the fleet at and radar beacon adaptcis. • •• is easy to install and operate. 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Ai~ View of New Caterpillar Plant
Architect's conception of the overall design of the Diesel engine building being built by Caterpiller Tractor Co., Peoria, III., for manufacture of marine .Diesels. !I'he largest of ~.i x buildings, which will increas the floor space of the manufacturer by 50% , the structure will cover a.n area of 925,000 square feet. ,vork on the building has already been started.
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The J. L. Stanley and Sons, 58-foot seiner launched at Davis Boat • Building Company of McKinley for Stanley Fisheries of Southwest Ha!'bor. She will make 10 knots with a Caterpillar Diesel D 13000.
By D. R. Sortwcll, Jr.
Albert E. Cockroft, treasurer of Stanley Fisheries, said that the high McKinley-A 58-foot seiner has re- est catches this year had been. In Future- of Diesel Field cently been launched by Davis Boat brought in by the U-and-I. Captained A new compact radio direction Building Company of MdQnley for by Peary Lawson of Bernard, she . As pa:t ot an . extensive program Yard Completing finder engineered to the same high Stanley Fisheries of Southwest Har- has averaged about 40,000 pounds a m the Diesel engme field, the Cater_· standards. as ocean-going merchant bor. Powered with a Caterpillar week. pillar Tractor Co. of Peoria, Ill, Sloops and ship models and operating from its Diesel D. 13000 marine engine driving Stanley Fisher ies is operated by manufacturers of marine Diesels, re• . • • own source of power _has been de- through a 2:1 reduction gear, she will William Sklaroff, John A . Noyes, a nd cently announced the building of ·a - Sport ' Fisherman signed by Radiomarine Corporation make about ten knots. The motor is Albert E. Cockroft. They have a fleet new factory. The major item among, the ·many - East Boothba'y-The destinies of of America for use aboard yachts 115 horsepower and has a front pow- of 14 draggers and six trawlers all which the company's expansion pro- on-e , of · Maine's oldest boat building and small craft where limited space er take-off. Named the J. L. Stan- owned or operated by local captains. gram includes, the 11ew plant - w'.il-I linns·, Hodgdon Brothers of East requirements make installation of ley and Sons, she will be captained Between the first of the year and have 925,000 square feet- : of ·flot>r -Boothbay, have ·• been placed in the larger types of direction finders im- by Derby Stanley of Southwest the end of June, Stanley Fisherie~ has paid these boats over $78,000. will contain t most modern hands of George ·t i 'Sunny" Hodgdon, practical. Known as Model AR-8702- Harbor . . • space, A, the unit is strictly a high grade developments in factory lighting; 24, by his fathef, George I., Sr., and tery charger, and an 18-gauge waterventilation, air-cleaning , ~md · noise -his uncle; .G~1atles, who are continu- and ~ccurate navigating instrument tight copper loop for outside instal~ to accomodate a ceiling height of 84 reduction, will conta·ih .all engine ing Uieir' active _a ss·o ciation with the and does not incorporate a radio lation. A drum type Asimuth scale inches and a deck thickness of 3 manufacturing operations now :.hari- b'4sitless .althQugh Charles plans to broadcast treceivec. . inches. The maximwn height of the Housed in a corrosion-resistant, with indicating pointer is mounted loop above the outside of the uppcl' dled in other pads of the· existing retire ·-later, in the year. The third directly above the receiver housing. plant. brother in ·t1?-e _t:cio that has man- baked laquer-finiszd cabinet meas- On the receiver panel are mounted deck is 18 inches. Current models of the Caterpillar' aged the-.firm, -with success for many uring 14 inches wio:e, 7 inches high an on-off switch, pilot light, continuThe sales price of the direcE011 line and engines .of increased horse- years; Will Hodgdon, retired last 12 inches deep, 1s a highly sensitive ous wave signal _switch, volume con- finder includ_es installation by Ra power-now in experimental stages October. ~"Sun~y" Hodg~on is ?f the and selective six-luue superhetero- trol, balancer control with provision diomarine licensed and competent . but soon to be in production. will fo~rth generation of his family ~o dyne recever. The main full-vision for sense determination and phone personnel. To determine quadrant al all be built at the new. plant. build . at . E;<!st . ~~othba?' an~ he ~s dial, connected to a three gang con- jack. error caused by the ship's hull, rigW. C: Burgy, supervisor of engine handling the firl'I_l s affairs _with typ1- denser, is calibrated in kilocycles. ging, etc., the directon finder is calisales training,- recently expx:essed cal Hodi~on_ ~~ill _and high stand- The tu.ning range is 270 to 520 kilobrated at the time of installation and cycles which includes the Coa'St Caterpillar's confidence in the· future' ards of worlonanship. a chart is prepared by the Radio Guard beacon band. The set is supmarine serviceman for ready referof the Diesel field by discounting the , About ready lo slide from Hodg- plied with a telephone headset, a ence by the naviga~or. inroads ~cast by the gas turbine don -Brothers -yar<l is a sturdy. sports battery · box complete with one 6 The Model AR-8702A can be s , _ and atomic power.· Burgy pointed fi~rman ; ~3..?.C 11 x 3-9, laid down by volt storage battery and two 45 volt plied for power supplies of 6, 12, 24, out that increased rotative speeds, ,William Hand 'for his own use ~nd dry cell batteries as well as .a batS2, 110 or 230 volts D. C. Where the higher B.M.E.P.'s, and "vapor phase" three-quarters comJ?lete~ at the t1~c power supply is 110 volts, 6() cycle, use of the exhaust gases would even.: of the noted . designers death m Hodgdon Brothers sent over last A. C., a separate rectifier unit ma~• tu.ally give Diesels thermal effencies Boothbay Harbor last month. The week a 35-foot auxiliary sloop for up to 82C" fisherman · willbe powered with a be furnished on special order i a Willia.1'11, P. Barrows of Rochester, N. 10 • General _Motors Diesel devefoping Y., and will launch a ~ister sloop lieu of the battery box and batteries. about 250 horsepower and turning a next w~ek for Earl F. Chapman of Power consumption • on the 6 vot Fish Carries _Light . Columbian 24 x 24 3-bladed propel- Braintree, Mass. The Barrows' sloop storage battery is 3 amp-er.es; on th e The Port Elizabeth museum • at -ler. The rudder assembly · is also was christened Swift and Chapman's 90 volt total dl"y cell batteries it is Durban, South ·Africa, has -obtained Columbian and ~ raft is Monel. The will be named Atalanta. The vessels 10 to 20 m. a. With A. C. power sup a fish which supplies its own light. fisherman is ·:fastened through with were designed by John Alden. ply. power conswnption is apprO¥..iIt is a black snake, about .a foot long Stronghold silicon-bronze nails. Port mately 40 watts. The Swift'is powered with a Gray with a formidable array of :fal'lgs. lights were supp1ied by Willis and Sea Scout and Atalanta will have a On Jhe head and body _are light-p1:3- the a-16-in~h plate glass by Soule Gray ·Light Four installed. Both Sulo Gronros Back with ducmg organs. It 1s - found m Glass & Pa.mt Company of Portland. sloops have Hyde 15x 9 2-bladed Sau.th African waters. In the first of ~vo July launchings, feathering wheels, Merriman rigging Father at Rockland Boat fittings, Danforth anchors, and Wil···-·-··----------------■■------■---·----- ~ lis alcohol stoves. They are designed Rockland-The Rockland Boat MARINE SERVICE INC. to sleep four. All of Atalanta's runShop, operated by Alex Gronros of Boothbay Harbor, Me. - TeJ. 464 ning rigging will be of nylon. Rockland, is again open and building Hodgdon Brothers recently delivMACHINISTS - MECHANICS - WELDERS after being closed during the war. ered to E. G. Veazey of Laconia, N. Radiomarine Corporation's new Gronros closed h is shop while his COMPLETE MARINE HARDWARE H., for use on Lake Winnepesaukee, compact radio direction finder de- son, Sulo Gronros was in the Navy. I U.S. GOVT. CHARTS - SHELL DIESEL OILS & GAS a 27-foot cabin cruiser powered w ith signed for use on small craft where Sulo has recently returned after four TWO DEEP WATER WHARVES a Scripps-Ford conversion with 2-1 space •is at a p1·emium. years in the service as a Chief Boatsreduction gear and built from deThe inside loop installation is de- wains Mate and is now helping -h is signs by George I. Hodgdon, Jr. The signed for use aboard wooden ves- father. cruiser's wheel is a Columbian 3sels or where a minimum of metalThe yard is busy building a ne·w bladed 19 x 15. lie structures are . in the vicinity of 75-foot dragger for Captain Charles On the work list at Hodgdon the direction finder loop. When the Carver of Rockland. Captain Carver, Brothers are a 38-foot pinkey designdirection finder is to be installed in an old-timer in the fishing business, ed by Murray G. Peterson of Marblea steel enclosed wheelhouse anoutrecently skippered the Jeanne D'Arc head ;far William Brown of Swampscott; an H-28 Rudder design by sde loop is always. used. The ouside wbich was . runnex:-up hlghliner out Francis Herreshoff for Editor Boris diameter of the loop is 13 - inches, -of Rockland ior the month of June. Lauer-Leonardi of Rudder; and sev- the inside diameter 9 inches. The Capt. 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By D. It. Sortwcn, Jr. Southwest Harbor-Building will be started or completed on more than 50 sloops this summer by Henry R. Hinckley and Company Inc. of Southwest Harbor. These sloops range in size from 21 to 28 feet 011 the waterline and were designed by Hinckley. Built for coa~wise sailing, these yachts will be powered with a fourcylinder Gray 4-.22 with a .2:1 reduction gear. They will use hollow spars of spf'1;1Ce, cetj.ar .Planking, mahogany for :cabin- housing and oak . for keel, frames and floors. 'l'o~in bronze will be_ µ~ for propeller shaft and rudder stock. -The Hinckley yard now ~mploys more than 190.people uot'l) the :vicm- , lty of Southwest 'Harbor.
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Clam \Vorn1s are found in commercial quantities on the lower reaches of the Sheepscott River. None are reported on the Dan1ariscotta and 1edomak rivers. Very few on the Georges River. Worn1s are found also ~;est of the Sheepscott in the i\Ionts\veag section. vVorn1 digging or "Bugging" around vViscasset is confined n1ostly to Blood Wonns. Ivan Flye of Newcastle, Douglas Schmal of No. Edgecomb and the ,v-anzer Brothers of Wiscasset are shippers. They buy fron1 the diggers, pack a_!"ld ship by Express to outlets in Conn., Long Island, New York and even to ,vashington D. C. Diggers get $2.00 a hundred. A good digger can average 400 to 500 \Vorms to a Tide. ~1ultiplying this by 365 days a year n1akes a Banker's Salary. It doesn't work out that way. If it is cold and rainy, orders for ,vorn1s are cancelled. \Vhen the Tides are poor, the incon1e again falls off. Some tune is lost Scouting for better flats. Once in a while you can find what you might call a Professional ,vorm digger. The shippers can depend on such a man. He is steady. Such a 1nan is Joyce Le,vis of \Viscasset. He may wear a Girl's na1ne, b~t he is all }.fan. I was talking ,vith Billy Wanzer, a big shipper. Wanzer said, "\Vorn1 diggers? They come and go. \Vork a few tides. Then give it up. _reed a little n1oney, start digging again. There is a certain class of \Vonn diggers who Hke the independence of this type of work. Get up in the morning, they can go to Town or they can go ,von11ing. S01ne of these casual diggers are good. I should say 4 tides a ,veek is a fair ,, average. \Vonzer said this is an off year for bloods. Said the flats were neglected during the \Var. Said flats need cultivating just like you work the ground over for any crop. Said there seen1s to be a lot of \Vorms but they're small. I van Flye had a bunch of fellers working for him but they are drifting away. Richard Pease, a returned veteran, is a darn good digger, but he has left the j\1ud flats and is training for a Garage mechanic. Robert Flye can make and has made $40 to $70 a we~k. The latter figure is ve1y high. \Vild claims have been made about big money, working the mud over and picking up a worm for hvo cents apiece. So ·with the young fellows out of ·work and the older ones too old or incapable of getting steady e1nployn1ent, you can see that the personnel of this business is uncertain. I want to emphasize that a certain percent of Worm diggers are deadly serious. Take Harry 11:atthews· of Boothbay, for exan1ple. He will tell you the truth. He makes fair n1oney digging ,vonns. He works at it as one might cutting \vood, for instance. He digs for Anton Bartik, also of Booth---bay. Do,vn this way, 1nost are after Sand ,vonns. These are long worms, and are deeper in the mud. The price is around $1.50-$2.00 peT 100. Sand ,vorms make excellent bait for t:q.e larger salt water fish. :\!rs. Bartik spoke of a Buzzard's Bay sportsman catching a large Sea Bass with this type of worm. Bartik is a big shipper too. Some of his diggers have left him to go clamming. Clarence Le~ris of Boothbay is a big shipper.
with comparatively little effort into clam-growing farms. Utilization of such areas would result in an increased supply of clams for the market, and in the conversion of thousands of acres of unproductive bottoms to a source of revenue. The cultivation of hard-shell clams, which are found from Maine to Florida, may also be rendered a very profitable and dependable business, provided fundamental rules are observed in selecting the ground for the farm and taking care of it.
Clam Farming Can Yield Big Dividends
The yield of the United States clam fisheries could be nearly doubled in volume with a corresponding 1 increase in value if scientific methods of cultivation were applied to this valuable resource, the Fish and Wildlife Service announced recently. The -slightly more than 30 million pounds representing annual current production is taken from uncultivatDr. Loosanoff, Service Biologist, a ed grounds and r.epresents the harvesting of a wild crop. The applica- states that the clam farm requires tion of modern methods of shellfish less care than the agricultural farm cultivation by State or local gov- and offers more profit. Hard clam ernments or by private individuals, farms, under cultivation, can yield where feasible, would greatly in- as much as 600 bushels of 2 1-2-inch clams per acre annually, it is esticrease the yield of this resource. The Atlantic Coast clam fisheries, mated. At current prices, this reprewhich furnish about 95 % cf the to- sents an income of $1,80-0 to $2,400 tal United States production, depends per acre of cultivated bottom. largely on two species, the softTwo new clam industries \vere deshelled clam and the hard clam or veloped during the war on the AtC. L. Dinsmore of Newcastle and quahaug. lantic Coast-a fishery for the surf Cultivation of soft crams may be clam in the Long Island area and his pipe are familiar figul'es in the Sheepscot area. Dinsmore is editor successfully undertaken in almost one for the ocean quahaug in Rhode and publisher of Dinsmore's Maine any protected area north of New Island and Massachusets. Since b oth Farmer, a monthly publication of Jersey. Many beds, which at present species inhabit deep water, it is beare almost barren or entirely devoid lieved the cultivation of these clams sly humor and local news. of these animals, could be converted would be difficult, if not impossible.
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By \\'illia~ Leet Stone Bunganuc Wharf - «Clams and Freeport-L. T. '"Doc" Kilby is in quahaugs seem less plentiful this By Tony ~utler his element when he puts his hands year," according to R. G. Kincaid, well known clam and quahaug digCastine - Like other cl'ammers on the crankshaft of his side-wheeler ger in this area. "That may be beall ~long the coas_t. the di?gers ?f and heads for his home near Mast's t cause there arc a lot more diggers" CaS me are handicapped m their Landing, Freeport after digging a he added ' I labors by a dearth of suitable clam mess of c!ams. " • . . I hoes; and they are not too happy in Doc Kilby·s unique boat is :i hand~unganuc 1s, a~ old Indian nam~ Itheir predicament. powered side-,\·heeler. The two w.tuc~ m~an? a h1gh-banked ~~·o~k, "I haven't been able to buy a good wheels are improYised wagon wheels he said. It 1s really an abbre\ iahon. clam hoe of the old tried and tested and the paddles are fastened on the The original Indian name carried on type for five years," declared Orends of some of the spokes. A the 'UC' indefinitely so the word mand Bowden veteran Castine .digcrankshaft, running athwartships looked like Bungar11·cucucucucucu." ger. ' and tur_.ed by hand. joins the two Two other well-known diggers in "During the war, it was underwheels on either side of the boat. this area are Arthur D. Dionne and standable. but it's puzzling as to why An outrigger on the port side gives William Kimball, who gets around they are not available now. The only the boat stability. in great shape in spite of his 81 thing you can get is a mongrel hoe "I can get through the water half- years. with flat instead of round tines or again as fast as by rowboat," says forks, and a shank which is much Seed clams are shown being dug from over-populated flats for reDick Kilby as he comes up the windDiggers in this area frequently sell too crooked. The fork comes back planting into depleted beds of the Scarboro River. Standing, left to right, ing river irom Porter"s Landing. to A. R. Elwell of Brunswick who towards the handle at almost a 45are Joseph Wallace, Sea and Shore Fisheries Warden; Leon Lary, First As he uses both hands to turn the is also a familiar figure around the degree angle," he said. Selectman of West Scarboro; Percy Ingersoll, Food Inspector; and excrankshaft, he steers the boat by Bunganuc wharf. The wharf is situ"That means you have to bend treme right, A. M. G. Soule, Chief, Division of Inspection, State Departropes which are looped over his ate? •on an inl:t from Casco Bay over a lot farther than necessary to ment of Agriculture. feet and lead back to the rudder. which reaches m close to the long get the prongs into the mud. Even . . . . • back road to Brunswick about 4 or for an_ old-timer like myself, it's Boothbay Harbor, Maine- Stating erations with the declaration that Kilbyb a!:d his partner m theflclam- 5 m1-1es f ram F 1·eeport Ce n t e r . · · f . . backbreaking. And it's very slow th,at a big increase in the extent of many out-of-state buyers of Maine ·ming u;;;1ness are am1 1iar gures Maine's clam industry was possible, clams prefer propagated clams to work.'' around F:·eeport. Kilby's wheelbar- Clam Diggers have good sized FamiSea and Shore Fisheries Commis- natural clams. "Why, with a good hoe, I could dig -row has trucked many a load of lies. sioner Richard E. Reed predicted re and extra bushel a day and pay for He said that these commercial necessities from the stores to his I call to Mind some good Clamcently that development of a well users claim _that propagated clams it in two tides. In fact, I will even home, a cistance of one and one half mers. Ashley Genthner, Ralph Gen- go so far as to say that many people balanced, long-range propagation, have better color and texture and miles. thner, Astor Willey, Andrew Kaler, who would otherwise dig do not do conservation and marketing program are far more uniform in size and Bernard Genthner, Orrin McLain, so because of a lack of clam hoes. I "could triple" the present economic therefore bring higher prices. Chester Carter, Lin Castner, Verge wish someone would do something value of the fishery. Commissioner Reed let it be Digging Down • The state's clam harvest in 1945 Prior. Vernard Prior. Some of about it," he stressed. known that his department be,..i General conditions for clamming in returned to the diggers alone a bout these Fellers go lobstering in the Medomak Wa y lieved in rigid adherence to the Spring. Castine are not at present as good as $750,000 Reed revealed, and with present 2-inch clam law, which Snow of Pine Point is a Heavy the have been in the past. The scar- diligent management and develop- "must be enforced to allow the By C. L. Dinsmore city is attributed by the professional ment of the resoutce this figure Was a Time, with nothing to do, buyer down this way. LeRoy Prior diggers to indiscriminate and large- should be increased to at least two smaller clams to remain in flats as future seed stock for heavily dug a Feller'd go Clamming. Sort of a of Round Pond is a Buyer for Snow. scale digging by amateur clammers million dollars, he said. Everybody seems to like Roy and I Spare ti~e. Last Resort, Take a The Sea and Shore Fisheries De- areas. who have taken to digging clams for Feller clo·.·,n round Broad Cove in think he Plans to do the Right Thing. home u se during the meat shortage. partment is desirous of working in He- also advised that his departSometimes the Diggers Glut the ment hoped to stimulate the interBremen and Back Cove in WaldoP robably without realizing the ef- close collaboration with local comMarket. As the Season advances boro, back in Depression Days, about fects of their metHcds, such people munities in the stocking of depleted est of the younger members of .all there -.vas was Clamming. Two there is a Call for Steamers. Ken- have been leaving on the beach clam beds, Reed advised, declaring coastal communities in established neth Krah moved into Waldoboro, or Three Dollars a busel. that his office soon hoped to be able and maintaining their own clam down near Rudie Eugley's Corner thousands of clams too small to take to give expert advice and other aid flats and thus add further stability You co::ld dig for the Factories. home. These clams die from the hot to coastal towns in the propagation to the industry. Once in a while a Feller would and he was Buying. He said the sun or are eaten by gulls. Castiners feel that in view of the programs. dig a fe·.v bushels and strike U,P Clammers made more than the DealAlthough clam diggers in Maine greatly increased acceptance of sea "This is one of the preliminary received approximately 5750.000 last country and peddle clams. Some- ers. The price renged round $7 to· $9 a food throughout the country, the steps that must be taken to protect times one clam peddler would get on barrel. A Green Feller at this Busi- clamming industry holds a great fu- and augment the industry", the Com- year, the entire clam operations, inthe sarr.e road as another peddler ness wouldn't do much. Its hard on ture if i-t is properly protected and missioner stressed, "and, although it cluding shucking and canning and he'd have Hard Picking. is primarily the function of local phases, constitute an annual average Kind of Handy living near the the Back and Legs. Theres a lot of cultivated. First on their list of "musts" is the communities to take the initiative in $2,000,000 industry, which should be Shore. 'Wife sa.)i 'There ain't a Thing Weary Trudging. Funny about that. increased to $5,000,000, Reed dein this House for Dinner" and the Take a Feller like lVIelvin Gen- education of diggers to bury back in conserving and propagating thei~ clared. old man·d grab a Clam Hoe and thner of Gross Neck, Waldoboro. the mud the smaller clams which clam areas, our department should be able to assist them in every poshead for the shore and glad to get Melvin is in his late Seventies, I they do not want. Secondly, th ey consider cultivation sible way to do the job right." think. But he wouldn't think nothing Out the House. You could have of flats along the coast vitally imReed revealed that the town of of Digging a bushel or two of Clams. Clam Chowder for supper and Peace portant. Ormand Bowden expressed S carboro was the latest community You get toughened up to it or would Reign. to provide funds and volunteer la, the opinion that there is a need for Something. Now things have changed. Clams clam reservations-that the S tate bor to re -stock badly depleted flats. :are Food. Food is scarce. Clam DigB ut I figger, its a Darn Sight Easier authorities should close off certain H e said that recently fourteen vol,ging is a Business. There's Money in to write about Clamming than to Go unteer fishermen from Scarboro had By Carroll T. Cooney, Jr. areas of flats so that diggers would it. Some clam the Year 'round. clamming. I buy Canned Clams. dug in one tide seventy-eight bushels Waldoboro-Clam digging in Walnot dig up the spawn or seed clams I was down in Medomak in Early and thereby prevent them from ma of small clams from heavily populatI doboro this year has begun to take February this year. Ice had been turing. This is especially necessary ed flats and re-seeded them in the ! on proportions of an important inbothering a lot and they couldn't RE CORD because it is natural for a great m aScarboro river area. dustry. Over 30 men engaged in this ·Get to v:here they wanted to. Ice The records for catching the most jority of spawn to be washed off the This is only the first of a series activity are at present digging on 'bothered all along the Shore. You fish on one trip have been duly re 1 -earn your Money in the Winter. You corded. But how about the records rocks and out to sea. never to r e- of diggings and plantings and re - the upper Medomak River and deseedings that the inhabitants of •livering their clams to Storer's -crawl 01:t of Bed at Six to catch a for cat ching the least fish . For ex- turn. Charlie P erkins also of Castine Scarboro will undertake to h elp Wharf in Waldoboro. Thomas WinEarly Tide, and the Sky all Gray and ample, 35 men fished for three hours had a nother suggestion -for the presthei r industry, he said, adding that chenbach buys at this wharf daily a Biting Wind from the Nor east, in a boat off F olkestone, England, ervation of clams. He ~ggest ed h is department had cooperated in a nd trucks the clams to Thurston in you're --tempted to crawl· right back and caught only one fish. This fish. clammer s, like lobstermen, should be this project. P ortland. The average digger is into Bed again. Some do. Some weighed one and a half ounces. protected from abuse of clam flat s Earlier in the-!eason the town of bringing in nearly 2 barrels of clams by r equiring all diggers to get a li- Sorrento raised funds and car ried on I on a single tide, and the approximate cense f t om the State. He favors an extensive re-seeding program in yield of clams daily on the upper strict enfor cement of the 2-tnch clam their clam areas, Reed advised, Waldoboro river approaches 60 barlaw if t h e future of the clam diggers pointing out that under ideal condi- rels. At present the diggers are reis to be insured. tions properly propagated flats can ceiving $9 per barrel. Hence an P r esent price of clams in Castine yield as high as $2,000 per acre. amount in excess of $3,000 a week is ~ is $1.00 a peck. Most of the clams dug "The farsightedness of these ~nm- being paid from this wharf alone to are m arketed in inland cities and munities in inaugurating these t he Waldoboro fishermen, and there PORTLAND MAINE towns. well-planned conservation and prop- is every indication that more men agation operations is commended," will soon take up this lucrative occuSponsors of Reed emphasized, "for they not only pation. Two-lncJi Clam Law contrihute to local prosper ity b ut High line diggers when they can Spe'Cifies Maximum also to the entire state economic sta- work on two tides in a single day are • $100 bility". bringing in as many as 15 bushels F1ne -0 . Discussihg ~e de):)artment's over- each; and one expert . . . recently Distributors of The t wo-inch clam law adminis-. all program to "stimulate'' Maine's dug close to 18 bushels on two tides. tered by t h e Department of Sea and I clam indu stry. Commissioner Re ed Although the Waldoboro flats will be Shor e Fisheries specifies that n ot declared that improved marketing called upon to yield perha_ps 10,000 STOKEL Y 1 S FINEST c;ANNED m ore, than 15% of any batch of cla ms and management practices should barrels during this season for an anor quahaugs shall be less than 2 also be employed to augment the nual revenue of nearly $90,000, there M EATS, GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS inch es in the longest diameter. Only conservation and propagation phijses. seems little indication as yet that the exception, according to the law, is He advised that his department grounds will be depleted. where the Commissioner has issued would soon employ an experienced A difficulty in procuring outboard permits t persons who wish to take shellfish expert to help develop a motors, which greatly facilitate opsmall clams for propagation pur- program which in a few years should erations for the diggers. is one thing poses. show remarkable results. which has had a tendency to disThe law, which is section 83 of "We are st udying th e shellfish in- courage some fishermen from enterchapter 86 of Revised Statutes of d ustry in Maine and research will ing this particular occupation. A GQOD JOB FOR YOU 1944 as amended by the public laws be conducted so that a well conceivof 1945, reads in part: ed long-term improvement program Fishing Holiday "A ny person, firm or corporation may be presented for Legislative Reno, Nev. schools look to the fuwho takes or has in his possession consideration at the next session," tlrre. They scheduled a holiday for or offers for sale soft-shelled clams R eed said. or quahaugs in violation of any of The Commissioner disclosed an next Wednesday. That's the day the the provisions herein stated, or who intere sting factor in clamming op- fishing season opens in Nevada. Choose This Fine Profession Now neglects to comply with the regula- ;.'iiiiiiitiiiiii'iiiiiii'iiiiiii'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii'iiiiiii'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii~iiiiiiiiiii .., tions shall be punished by a fine of Tel.· Brooksvi lle 24-22· Fac to ry at Brooklin not l ess than $10, nor more than $100, Mon. & Wed. for the first offense, and by a fine of • '' not less than $10, nor more than $50, 3 12 WATER ST. CITY HALL Packers o f for each subsequent offense." AUGUSTA It is interesting to note that for BELFAST Hake, Codfish, Mackerel, Herring , Clams and Mussels some reason the maximum fine for . BROOKSVILLE, MAINE the second offense is less than for the .IIUUIUUU 11si1i1u11 nu 111IUUI 111 IUUIIUIUI 1u111: IUU IUUI 1111111 1Ulll l.ll 111 nun first offense
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Goudy & Stevens Converting · Egg Spray Checks Sea Gull Population Port Clyde-Monhegan· Boat
To carry Port Clyde-Monhegan mail-this 55-footer is being reconverted by Goudy & Stevens at East Boothbay for Captain Earl Fields, who will operate the former USA Quartermaster boat for mail, passenge_r and freight service on the Port Clyde-Monhegan run.
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Waldoboro- Waldoboro Shipyard, Waldoboro, Maine, at the head of the tide on the Medomak River, has five boats all of different classes and types currently under construction. At the dock and ready for engine installation and outfitting prior to delivery is th~ Leonard and Nancy, 87-foot dragger built for Captain Sylvester Ferrigno of Camb.ridf{e, Mass. This vessel, which will fish out of Gloucester, Mass., will be powered with a 250 horsepower Atlas ~mperial Diesel, and will carry approximately 140,000 pounds of iced fish in the hold. In the main boatshed a 71-foot dragger is being built for George Thompson of Wakefield, R. I., from plans and specifications furnished by Eldredge-Mcinnis, Naval Architects in Boston. Also building in this shed are two smaller boats: one 33-foot lobster fisherman for Hiram Dexter,
Jr., of Falmouth Forcside, and one 32-foot sailing sloop of the Barnacle class designed by John Alden for Adams & Hayden of South Bristol. Also nearing completion on the outside ways is one 42-foot inshore dragger for Long Island Sound fishing, being built for John Erickson and Frank T;notson nf Long Island. The Yard· for two years has been principally occupied in building large commercial fishing vessels for Boston and Gloucester. Among the vessels built are such successful draggers as the Lrttle Nancy, Boston; the Catherine B., Boston; the Olymia La Rosa, Boston: the Edrth and Lillian of Gloucester and the Moonlight and Moonglo. both of New Bedford. The Andarte and the Evzone, both steady high liners and now operating out of Portland were also built at the Waldoboro Shipyard.
U. S. Game Management agents are now in the midst of a birthcontrol program for long range sea gulls which have been damaging crops 100 miles inland. The program, which began May 30, consists of spraying water soluable, oil emulsion on eggs of sea gulls in the islands between Jonesport and the Isle of Shoals. The spray seals eggs pores, preventing development of the embryo. Herring gulls, protected by State and federal laws, have increased so much there isn't enough beach refuse to provide their food needs and they have turned to blueberries and other crops further inland, according to Lee F. Brackett, game management agent for Maine, New . Hampshire and Vermont. " The gulls are extremely valuable in controlled numbers," he explained. "They keep the coast clean." The starfish is the chief natural Control efforts began experiment- tion dropped by about '3,000' by ac- enemy of the oyster, and one starfish ally in 1935 he.said, but last year was tual count of nests, Brackett esti- can consume as many as five oysters in a day. . the first in which a decrease was mated. noted. Maine's adult sea gull popula-
East Boothbay-Goudy & Stevens , wheel. Wire rigging is Roehling with of East Boothbay-actually the firm rope from Wall and Columbian and had a lot to do with making the blocks and turnbuckles from Merhas been all Stevens since 1944--are riman Brothers. Pigeon hollow spars Bowdoin shipshape in time to make busy with an auxiliary yawl, a 28- will be used with sails by Hathaway- her scheduled departure for Frofoot lobster boat for John Lash of Reiser. Galley equipment will in- bisher Bay in Baffin Land. The BowFriendship, and a former U. S. Quar- clude a Shipmate range and Willis doin, built 25 years ago by Hodgdon Brothers at East Boothbay, was given termaster's Department boat for the Alcohol stove. hard usage by the Navy during the Port Clyde to Monhegan run. The The firm recently delivered a 36- war but MacMillan bought her back well-known firm recently prepared foot day cruiser to Philip H. Hazelton John Alden's Malabar XIII, which of Boothbay Harbor and West and was delighted to find his famous they built a year ago for the Bosto:c. Orange, N. J. The cruiser is 36 feet schooner as sound as the day she was designer, for the 1946 Bermuda class- overall with a beam of nine feet and built. The Bowdoin was really stripped ic .and did much of the work that draft of three. She is powered with a by the Navy before she returned to made Comdr. Donald B. MacMillan's 135-horsepower Chrysler Royal. The MacMillan's control and he had litfamous Bowdoin ready for departure propeller is a Columbian Rocket 3erally to start refinishing and reJune 29. The firm was established 25 bladed 22 x 19. The frame is oak and furnishing from the keel up. years ago by Wallace W. Goudy and the cruiser is double planked with Biggest item in his recommissionJ. Arthur Stevens. Goudy retir~d in cedar and mahogany and bronze fasing job was installation of a 1001944 and Stevens took over, in as- tened. A Willis alcohol stove is used horsepower Cummins Diesel engine. sociation with his sons, J. Arth·ur, in the galiey. which MacMillan expected would Jr., and James, and his son-in-law, give the schooner an extra_ knot's The 28-foot lobster boat will have Frank Cummings, who is in the faspeed. She always was fast and the a 70-80 horsepower engine. She was cific with the Navy. designed by Everett Barlow of East way she tore out of Boothbay Harbor last month on her first postwar The yawl b1.1ilding by Goudy & Stev- Boothbay. ens measure 37 feet overall with a The conversion job on the former voyage to the North indicated that beam of 10 feet 6 inches. She is oak QD boat, a 55-footer, is for Capt. she really was getting that extra knot, if nqt more. J. Arthur "Tunk" framed and mahogany planked and Earl Fields. Stevens, Jr., was busy on odds and is being fastened with Everdur. A For Comdr. MacMillan, Goudy & ends aboard the Bowdoin right up to Gr;:1y Four-52 will be installed and Stevens put in a new generator and sailing time. · will turn a Hyde 2-bladed 18 x 12 exhaust lines, built extra berths, and
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DEPARTMENT OF SEA AND SHORE FISHERIES Reed's Letter to Wardens States Administration Policy
Department Will Post Public Notice of 58 Closed Clan1 Areas
Research to ~ncrease Quahaugs
l Elmore Wallace to Hunt
The digging of clams is banned in ) Tuna off Eastern Maine 58 areas along the coast and Sea and l Although some tuna have been Shore Fisheries wardens will soon sighted in waters east of Matinicus post all _of the closed fl~ts for t?-e 'Rock, the extent of the fishery from mformat10n Df the pu~hc. Ch~ef that area to Eastport is not very well Warden Dan Malloy said that d1gknown. / ging was strictly pTohibited in these The Department of Sea and Shore ar~as and that hi:5 wardens were reFisheries, anxious to find out wheth- quired to patrol them r.onstantly. er or not a profitable commercial The areas were closed by the· Comand sports tuna fishery can be devel- missionier of Sea and Shore Fisheries oped in those waters, is planning to and the Department of Agriculture make a survey and to conduct exper- in March 1943 upon the advice of imental fishing. the U. S. Public Health Service. Commissioner Reed said that Y./arChief Malloy pointed out that none den' Elmore Wallace, who is the De- of the areas could be re-opened for partment's tuna expert will visit digging by his department until pereastern Maine waters with his fully- mission to do so ,vas granted by the equipped boat and accompanied by Inspection Division of the Departexperienced anglers. ment of Agriculture and the P 1.1blk "If they are there we want to Health Service. know and we want the world to The areas are as follows: know it," Reed said. Piscataqua River. Closed Area No. 1: From all indi,cations the- big blueAll that portion of the Piscataqua fins are a priceless asset to the Coast River and tributaries thereto in the and if they are in Eastern Maine they State of Maine north and northwest will bring a lot of business to that of a line drawn in a generally southsection of the Coast. westerly direction from the end of Commissioner Richard E. Reed Reed said that Warden Wallace the pier on the western side of GerAugusta-In a letter recently sent would spend considerable time on rish Island to the northernmost point Fart of the Maquoit Bay quahaug fleet unloading their haul of choice to all the wardens of the Department the survey. of Wood Island and thence to the quahaugs at the famous Bunga.nuc Wharf. of Sea and Shore Fisheries, CommisHe has requested that all who sight southernmost point of Jaffrey Point sioner Richard E. Reed outlined the tuna in that area notify his depart- on Newcastle Island in New Hampexpressed policy of the department ment. Sea and Shore Fisheries ComrnisMaine quahaugs, according to e:~shire. nder his administration. Reed's letsioner Richard E. Reed stated reperts, have a superior texture and Last year's tuna catch in Maine to- York Harbor. Closed, Area No. 2: ter follows: cently that his Department plans to flavor when eaten on the half she:1 taled over 700,000 pounds. Experts in All of York Harbor inside and west conduct research on the problem of and they are in great demand in fr_e "The enforcement -officers of this coastal fishing believe there is no of a ltne drawn in a southeasterly increasing quahaug production along metropolitan centers. From 40 - ro 60 Department are the "front • line reason why the tuna should not make direction from Fort Point (East diggers make a good livelihood fro~.1 Point) to the easterly extremity of the coast. troops" in our field of conservation. their appearance further East. W'estern Point. Maine has a plentiful supply of this fishery which is carefully pre You are the guardians of a $50,000,Cape Neddick Harbor. Closed Area quahaugs, but for some 'l,lnknown tected and great stress is placed 0-1 000- industry, upon which 50,000 to No. 3: reason Maquoit Bay near Freeport propagation and conservation by t'b.e 60,000 persons are dependent for a Five Gl's Training All the area inside of a line drawn a11d Brunswick is the O".'ly area fishermen. livelihood. from Barn Point northeasterly to where they can be fqund. Last year Sea and Shore Fisheries Commi-;You not only represent me and the With Sea •and Shore 1 Weare Point. • diggers took more than 1,750,000 si_oner Richard E. Reed states that Department of Sea and Shore FishAugusta-Five World War II vets Ogunquit River. Closed Area No. 4: pounds out of this area and the bulk his department plans to conduct ex eries in your locality but to many are now employed by the DepartThe Ogunquit River north of a of them were sent to out-of-state perimental quahaug plantings in, people you are the Department. ment of Sea and Shore Fisheries unline drawn from the most southern markets for canning and for serving other ~ections _along th~ coast. •-::: ~ You have a public relations. job der the Apprentice Training plan as to ao of the greatest importance for sponsored by the Veteranfs Adminis- point on Ogunquit Beach soµtherly on the half shell. Very few were sold they will grow in Maquo1t Bay, the~·:! upon the impression you leave · with tration. With the set-up the Federal to the northernmost point on Isreals in Maine but there is an excellent must be other areas where a fishe.r·· opportunity to develop a local mar- can be developed," he said. Shel:., the public depends the success or Government and the Department Head. ket through restaurants and hotels. have been found in areas arouna (Continued on Page 26) ilure of our conservation program. (Continued on Page 26). Bluehill Bay and other sections b:.t ·wardens must carry out the ad- I - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - there are no known beds outside cf ministrative policy prescribed and the Maquoit Bay section. emblitlied in the law and in the reguReed said that experimental plantlations made by the Department. ings would be carried on after fu:.l As officers of the State it is their scientific research was well under duty to enforce these regulations way. "There is no sense to wast;:! without fear or favor, but with distime and money with hit or m i3s cretion and judgment. Not many efforts," he said. people know the Sea and Shore FishReed congratulated the Maquoit eries laws except in a most superficiBay quahaug diggers for their inter al way. The essential one-s, those proest in conservation and propagatio..1 hibiting ·wanton destruction, are "These men know a good thing w he.1 known to all and are the ones that they have it and they do not intend al\ wardens must be most vigilant in enforcing. to have the fishery ruined by over digging," he said. Each year the d igIt is ·not the policy of the State or the Sea and Shore Fisheries Depart[ gers donate their time and energ,r ment to prosecute trivial mistakes; I in propagation of their flats. it is, however, the duty of every ' "If the clam diggers were as co.· warden to show the wilful vioi.1t:)r cerned with the future of their fis h that he has the whole power of the ery, it would be much better for a<l State of Maine behind him in putting con~rned," said the Commisslone1. his kind out of business. 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Hampden Highlands - Coas tal Warden Dwight Underwood of Warden Lester Stubbs -of Hampde 1 Saco reports that the lobster catch Highlands is now conducting a sea in his district is at the lowest poundmoss survey all along the coast fo1 age that can be recalled. A great 1'.is department. Stubbs is trave11i:- _; mackerel drag was made in his area by car and carrying a skiff with ~:..ton June 20th when boats with 5,500 board motor. to 7,000 with thirty nets were run of The purpose of the survey ls ~0 tl:It!" IJ.!ill stuff . . . Jim Thurston at chart all areas that have a supply of Orr·s Island -says he noticed a few the growth so that the departme!lt ''highlanders·• digging clams with a can better advise prospective buyel., '·plumber's helper" and they were and harvesters as to the possi bi' idoing all right for themselves too .. ties. Alvin Wallace landed the first mackThe department of Sea and Shore ereii- of the season in the West Point Fisheries is interested in helping co ar~ on June 7 with 150 pounds acestablish a big sea moss industry and cording to Owen Richardson. Wilbelieves that it can be done. Departliam Jones of Five Islands has openment experts point out that it is good ed a restaurant and hotel, has eleven clean work with comparatively sho-rt rooms available for vacationists, and hours and large earnings. There is As part of the 1946 lobster rearing program, wardens are liberating fourth-stage lobsters to help replena nice view of the Southport and an opportunity for men to go into a S~eepscot River from the dining ish the supply along the coast. Boat in the picture is the Depar~ment's pa trol-boa.t the Lively Lady. nice business for themselves by t:·room. Lewis said that the Department youngsters would be equally distrib- ing up with one of the processo!'~ Alewife activity on the St. George For the sixth consecutive season and hiring rakers to harvest :Ce River is over, according to Warden the Sea and Shore Fisheries lobster had received some additional money uted in numbers according to last moss. Supervisor Frank Hallowell of rearing station at Boothbay Harbor from Governor Hildredth and •his year's lobster <latch in the- various With a rapidly increasing market Executive Council for necessary re- counties. Thomaston . . . catch has been very for their product ready and waitin , poor this year. Reports on weirs at is turning out "fourth stagers" to pairs and replacements, but that the The station will • operate on a 24Maine sea moss processors are anx South Warren' indicate the poorest help· replenish the supply along the station could not be put on a· 'l00% hour schedule until late in August. ous to increase production of_ .e basis without costly additions to the ruh fn years '... less than 500 pounds coast. According to Lewis scientific re- , aw products and are doing everytaken. Local lobstering in his terriStation superintendent Elton e'X- pr:esent equipment "It is my impres- search is being carried on to try to thing they can to encourage m o e tory has slackened off, h 'e says, prob- pressed hope that the output would sion that Commissioner Reed is go- r~tarft the development of egg lob- people to harvest it for them. ably because the lobsters are among reach at least 1,000,000 this season. ing to ask the _Legislature for the sters so that the rearing effort can Department experts point out the ' rQCks shedding . . . Merle Dob- "It all depends upon how much we necessary funds this winter," he said. be maintained for an additional two there are large beds of moss ail bins says there seem to be more can get out of our inadequate wate'r • A sdiedule for releasing the fourth to three months each year. ·'This along the ledges from Rockland to clal)l-dig~ers and .clams lately in his heating system and the quality ·of the stagers }las been ·drawn up and will theory is in the experimental stage Casco Bay, but that the areas to the "pap, of'the wor!d .. ; A new lobster eggs that we get from th~ seeders,'' be· adhered to religiously, according and if we can lick it we can triple the -eastward and westward have nevel' ·'{Cmitin'uM ori -~age .26) - ·. he safiL. . ,.. tG -Le . s:-·-H ~-.sai~ "' th& -,tb-e-· Iil~Iy, present .oru1tp.tit,'' -he said, ' before' been adequately surveyed.
Station and there were quite a few alewives in the Pleasant River at Columbia Fall, according to Herbert Morang of Jonesport ·.. says groundfishermen doing well. Robin Henderson of Cutler says lobstering dropped off by half in his area . . . at Lubec Daniel Johnson reports a few groundfish bei-r.g caught locally.
Reed's Letter (Continued frdm Page 25) \Vardens are also agents of the people with whom they come into close contact both officially and as neighbors and fellow citizens. They must answer all questions fully and cheerfully and be prompt, active and courteous in the conduct of Department business. It is essential t~at wardens should win the respect and confidence of those with whom they come in contact. The Department will not tolerate discourtesy or inefficiency in any of its members. A warden who realizes the importance of his position can do much to bring enforcement of our conservation laws into popular favor. Much of the wantonness in the destruction of our natural resources proceeds from thoughtlessness and few people, once impressed with the importance and necessity of observing our conservation laws which have been designed to protect these resources, continue to violate them.
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Air Photography Speeds New Coast Chart TOPIC§
First Friendship in 25 Years Built by Designer's Grandson
by Don O'Dolan
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Machais-Modern methods of air strip pictures are making the current revision of our coastal charts quicker rusta-Here is a letter we re- and more accurate, Lieutenant Coml from Wayne Buxton of the mander Ross A. Gilmore, of the Development Commission Coast and Geodetic Survey, United 1 we think is loaded with interStates Department of Commerce, ex_ • information for veterans: plains. Commander Gilmore, with ar Pete: headquarters in Machias, supervises •Ur interest in the Maine fish- crews which are making this check as a possible field for jobs for from Jonesport to Calais. 1ing servicemen seems to be The revision has been in progress 1ral. After talking the situation for six years, working northeastward with Richard Reed, Commis• of Sea and Shore Fisheries, I from Kittery. Earlier sections probathat making a living through bly now are considered complete, ,heries offers many definite op- may already be available in print. nities especially to men who Commander Gilmore's sector, alone, to be their own boss. This nat- is still being worked by the field men, ' takes a bit of personal initia- possibly will be finished this sumand in most branches of the mer. Air photography, as developed ;~~- little money to get startthrough extensive reconnaissance • instance, if a fellow likes out- use for war, is fast and foolproof. A 1'fe. he can make a good thing camera plane has its special equipe clam business. Now wait a ment poked through a belly hatch, te scientific clam farming with shutter release attached to syn>e -big business. During 1945 chronize with the mechanism of the diggers' took in about three plane. Flying at constant altitude, ers of a million dollars. You the camera automatically snaps a mderstand this when you find new picture at stated intervals. La:lams were selling for about $12 ter, in the laboratory, the prints are -rel, and a man can raise them joined to make a continuous strip than he can potatoes. picture. the vet is suffering from a letUsing such strips, the current chart after the hectic war years and revisioning is simply a matter of •king for a job wi th some snap, personal crews checking actual terline fishing for tuna could be The Sadie M., first Friendship sloop to be built in many years, steps out with the kicker pushing her at nswer. These ocean streamlin- rain against a strip, and inserting a 11 an easy 8 knots as she he_ads down the Georges River for Pleasant Point. d 500 names and other necessarz data of 300 iverage between an identification. As in any complete ds and travel with the speed of By Sid Cullen frame started to take form through A busy season prevented her be:xpress train. It takes some survey, bench marks and triangulaThomaston-Wilbur Morse, owner the Winter months. All his years of ing completely outfitted last year. A ·-how to locate the schools of tion stations are used as reference of the Morse Boatbuilding Co. of skill went into the little craft while few weeks ago, however, her sails but this is a comparative new points. Thomaston and grandson of Jonah the original design was followed to were bent, the motor tuned up and ;try in Maine, hence others had Contrary to local rumor, Roque Morse of Friendship who designed the letter. Even though a part time she left the yard for her owner's arn it and newcomers can do Island will remain Roque Island in the first Friendship sloop, has re- job, she took shape rapidly. cottage at Pleasant Point for the ame. Figuring the tuna to run . official name. cently completed and outfitted the Along came the war and the de- Summer. the hundreds of pounds, just first sloop of that design to be built mand for larger draggers mounted as Just. about the trimmest thing in at about 23 cents per pound For the first time, this new coastal in the past 25 years, the "Sadie M." the county made ready to feed the pleasure craft and a good rough •s quite a day's pay. Also, if the chart will include considerable land Steeped in the tradition of the allied nations. The little sloop went •weather boat, she is the envy of ·man can equip his boat to take detail, in some cases covering as Friendship sloops which he helped untended for months at a time. Drag- many a yachtsman in the area. ports fisherman, he can get fifty far inland as 15 miles. his grandfather build when ihe was ger after dragger slid down the ways, She measures 30 feet overall, has rs a day for his trouble, and in Commander Gilmore has settled a boy in Friendship, he had longed completed and only needing the at- a nine-foot beam and draws five. The ' cases the fish thrown in. himself and family at Roque Bluffs to build one from the original de- tention of the fitting out dock before auxiliary is a Universal 25 horsemuch publicity has been given for the summer. signs for his own use. going to sea. The sloop got only an power gas engine which will drive .1:aine lobster industry, that litBut he was too busy. An active occasional plank or two at a time, her about 8 knots . ::!eds to be said about it. -On the The crews go South to the Gulf boat building business in Cushing whenever Wilbur could take an hour She has a frame of bent native cial side, the picture is bright- coast area for surveys during the took his time. Then 12 years ago his from the task of supervising the white oak, cedar planking and white u as a consumer can buy a lob- winter and come down to Maine dur- ?wn company, Morse. Boat building / work on the three draggers usually pine decking with a mast made in today for less than 90 cents a ing the summer. The crews are m Thomaston, kept him so busy he under construction in the yard. the Morse yard of Maine spruce. d, y.Ju are a lucky guy. The made up of an6ngineer, assistant en- had no time to realize his ambition Little by little, she shaped up The sails were made by D. V. ~r has indeed become big busi- gineer, rod-man, plus office force to to build and silil one of these sea- while the yard crew and townspeople Benner of Waldoboro who during his when you consider that last file and compare photographs. worthy craft. watched her progress and looked life made hundreds of suits of sail -.about 5,500 licensed fishermen A . d d t h' Finally in 1940, when the last of forward to the day when she would for Friendships. These were the last !fed over 8 million dollars. And specia11Y eve 1ope s ereop ican the Summer's draggers had been de- take to the water. he made before his death last year. fellows did it with equipment viewer enables two photographs to The years 1942, 4::l, 44 and early A boatbuilder since the age "Of 12, ran f-Iom a small row boat and be put together and a third dimen- live~ed and there was a I.ittle space of time betwet'n the laymg of the 45 slid by and she grew slowly until Morse is far more proud of the Sadie v traps to a 20 knot 38 footer, sion developed which makes a- hill keel for the next one, he picked out a day last' July when she went over- ·M. than any· commercial craft he JOO ..,_ appear to poke you in the nose. . uaps. a corner of the huge boat shed and board with half the town of Thomasenumerate the many job possiTide tables are used to check a~noun~ed that henceforth _that ~as ton down to the yard for th~ occa- ever launched and likes nothing bet~s in the Maine fisheries would against the air photographs noting h1s territory and that he was to bmld sion~the first of her kind to be ter than to take her out for a run or show her to interested fishermen and many more pages of copy and accurately what point of the tide at his long-wanted sloop. launched in a quarter ce_ntury. yachtsmen. might not cover the situation. every inch of the coast. The keel was stretched and the as you mentioned, Maine is a of great opportunity, and The map produced by Commander mentioned above are just a Gilmore's survey is actually a typo- Wardens to Inspect graphic map of the Maine coast region. Corrections from this map will Vacant Coastal Cottages Sincerely, Wayne" be applied to the coastal charts. Each photograph overlaps the adAugusta-As 'an extra service" Sea on receiving Wayne's interest- joining photograph so that the prints and Shore Fisheries wardens will ~tter we dropped in on some of can be joined to make a continuous inspect coastal cottages while on 'riends on the coast and found strip picture or mosaic. their regular patrols and report any many ex-GI's had really gone irregularities to the owners, accordthe business with an- eye on a ing to Commissioner Richard E. ierous future. One fellow was Reed. -producing lobster traps and Three Ves.sels _at Morse Reed said that each of his 33 ward,g them just as fast as he could ens had been provided with courtesy Thomaston-The Morse Boatbuildthem out. Another talked in , of setting-up a string of clean, ing Company which recently launch- cards which would be tucked under ~ road stands to handle sea food. ed the David A. for Capt. Carl Reed the doors of the cottages if everyistened intently to a group of of Owl's Head is now outfitting that thing was found to be in order and g vets who spoke of the oppor- dragger. Two more draggers, both if windows were broken or there ies that would open in Maine for Massachusetts men, are now on were other signs of the property 1g for men who knew refriger- the ways. One of the draggers is having been disturbed the owners ' lllarketihg, engineering, trans- now being planked and the other would be properly notified. "We believe that our wardens ition and many other trades ana has half her framing done. should be goodwill ambassadors for :ssions. Another thing we came the coast of Maine as well as conser, with was a firm conviction that 423-Pound Shark vation enforcement and educational he coast of Maine is the best 'While fishing on the Bay of Islands fo~ in the world. officers," Reed said. grounds. near Auckland, New Zeammistoner Reed told us that land, the Rev. E. T. Olds of Auckland "This is purely an additional duty ,ould be more than glad to ans- landed a 423-pound shark. and designed to help protect the prony and all questions concernperty of our summer visitors and our sea and shore fisheries put to ness. Inquiries should be addressed local residents," he said. Wilbur Morse of Thomaston is shown at the tiller of his sloop Sadie by Maine vets, and, if they ask to Mr. Richard E. Reed, CommissionEach card bears the following mes- M. just off the boat yard which he operates on the Georges River at t, g· e them a little valuable ad~ er. Sea and Shore Fisheries, Vickery- sage: Thomaston. ifAPey plan to enter the busi- Hill Building, Augusta, Me. The laws and regulations relating to the Sea and Shore Fisheries have been designed to conserve natural i::esources which provide a livelihood for many of our citizens·. Only through the efforts of all concerned can a conservation program be successfully carried out. The warden is an employee of the CANNERS OF FRUIT, VEGETABLES people and paid for by the State of Maine to safeguard and protect these resources from the inroads of lawless and destruction. As an additional service your warden, from time to time, will inspect the condition of your closed cottage and other unguarded FISH Choice Maine Lobsters Shipped Daily property as he mi-kes his regular patrols of the coastal areas. Owners' names and addresses conspicuously Rockland Maine posted on the premises would aid the BOOTHBAY HARBOR, MAINE warden service in the · prompt notification of any change in the condition · -.... _.., . that might come to his attention.
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Already a giant, and still growing, through refrigerated lockers for \Vildlife Service have shown conthe frozen foods industry is rapidly home use. Hmldreds of locker plants clusively that locker storage of assuming a major role in tne field of have opened in recent years, the frozen fish if properly wrapped has distribution. Delicious frozen fish · majority located in the Mid-West no harmful effect whatever on even w it..l-i fresh-caught flavor has kept where it has always been difficult to such susceptible pr:iducts as b1,1tter. pace with the young giant's growth, supply good qu~lity fresh . fish and furnisping_in season and out. of sea- where consumption of fish 1s lowes~. son food of the sea ready to·r the Many locker operators have made it 100 Yea.rs Ago Today nation's table. a practice to assist their patrons in A seal skin over seven feet long On the East Coast ihe past 20 securing such products as frozen taken from a seal caught at Brunsy ears have seen rapid development fruit~, vege!ables and meat at sub- wick, Maine, was to be seen in Temof the frozen fish trade, until today stantial savings through purchase_of ple Street yesterday. It is said to be dealers are producing :rr.iliions of seasonal products at production the largest ever taken in Maine. pounds of frozen co,!, flounder,;, had- peaks when prices are low. With a fresh memory of dried eggs dock, rosefish, mackerel, whiting, Frozen fish can be maiketed simscallops, shrimp and other species. ilarly through refrig-erated locker and K rations the veterans have anOn the West Coast salmon, hulfout. C'stablishments, adding to th~ rev- other reason to do their utmost to sablefish,- ling cod, rockfish, flound- enue of the locker operator and fur- prevent \-rorld War III. ers and many other items ar~ being nishing the patron with a wide variFactory ships in the South Pacific frozen_ in •increasing quantities. In ety of seafoods. are going to produce dehydrated the Mid-West im~rtant quantities While a few locker operators still whale.-Boston Post. of fresh water species, su~h as chubs, hold the old belief that frozen fish Over 300,000 pounds of clam worms lake herring, lake trout, and white will contaminate other food stored were dug in Maine during 1945. fish are froze_n: with it, experiments conducted at One prom1smg outlet for pack- the Seattle Fishery Technological Ancients regarded amber as a cure aged frozen fishery products is Laboratory of the U. s. Fish and for insanity and fever.
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Dis trict N o. 1 Elwy;i G. Doughty 151A Congress S t., P ortland (No Phone) B lanchard L akeman 140 Monson Ave., Kittery Haro~d Ricker 24 \Villiams St ., P ortland, Phone 35-332 Dwight W. Underwood 70 Middle St., Saco, Phone 269 Biddeford Albert R. Hamilton 34 Fessenden St., Portland
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Distr ict N o. 2 Warr n A. Hume B oothbay Harbor, Phone 440 Swam:ea Burns ,,-2~ Potter St. , Brunswick, Phone 244-M D aniel Davis Boothbay Harbor, Phone 472-M Owen Richardson \ est Point. Phone Phippsburg 8M3 • Jame~ Vv. Thurston Orr·s Island, P hone Harpswell 58 John Stevens Fliendship . Phone Waldoboro 126-4 Joseph T. West DGmariscotta, Phone 142-5
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Emil Rivers' Machines Clean Gut and Fillet 60 Fish Per minute
. Des igne1· and manu factu re r of s e v eral t y pes of fish proce ssing mach1'nes Emil R ivers ch ecks one of the belly -slicing and cleaning machin, cs w hich his son-in-law, S imon Ham elainen,, right,_ assembles at their plant on U pper Park St. in Rockland:
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difierent islands, then going on to the White ountains and Canada. A world weary of war a n d -~he Warden quickened t empo of life finds a _trip Warden to these beautiful islands of Casco by Sid Cullen now in production, was designed esBay a solution to peace, p l easure pecially for packers of fish bits and and quiet. Real Estate values on the ' Emil Rivers of Rockland, native of special sizes of fish products. A Warden islands are at a premi um, and the Allond Island between the countries series of Vee belts feed the chunks T rainee harvest of the sea, primarily lobsters of Sweden and Finland, and re- of fish into an evenly spaced battery and ·clams,· is at an all time hi e:h. spected citizen and businessman of . of rotary knives, cutting each piece District No. 4 • P rope r ty owners. hotel proprietors, Rockland where he is accepted as the exact size cies:red for packing William H. Thurston fishe r men and all subsiduary ser- the head of the large Finnish colony in glass or cans for pickling or speMcKinley, P hone S. Vv. Harbor 232 -2 S upervisor vices are booming this ·Year in Casco in the Knox Count_Y ~r~a, is in .the cial fancy packs as featured by some Oscar W. Ferd ~ av. ""'""'-'• process of revolutiornzmp: the fish " k Brooklin, Phone Sedgwick 39-4 W arden • p~c. ers. business along th e coas t w1'th a senes ,. . . . R alph Pinkham of four machines which h e has either Several firms, iaced w1th difficulty 67 High St .. Ellsworth, Pbone 206-M Warden invented or improved upon in the in gettin~ la_bor fer . the fish pl~nts R oy D. Stewart last five years. 1 are sl:o,,·mg mter_e~t rn '.he machines Corea, P hone Winter Harbor 116-5 Warden • f fi h • h I n h 1s 1me o s processmg mac - . ,and cUtnefi speed w 1i.11 which they can L ester A. Stubbs ·1 nan . e s11. . 1nes, R" ers ma k es l1ea d an d t a1Hampden Highlands, Phone 13-3 "\Varden ct:tter, a combined belly slicer and Rivers states that the head and, Chester E. Brown cleaner. a fille t ing mac].i,ine and a t:iil cutter, by ch_ec~, can handle ..so Ellsworth, 52 Dean S., Phone 181-2 "\Varden tidbit cutter, all products of his tiny\ to 60 fish ~er ~~~u,e, end t!'\at ·,ne District N o. 5 t shop located in the outskirts of the otl-,er machines c..re able to t"'K_ e the city. maximuri., output of th s machme. Ernest V. Woodward Jonesport, Phone 63 Supervisor The head and tail cutter feeds the Orders h::rn~ been received from B ertram Davis fish to 1·apiclly spinning circular many parts of both Hie East an &l. Addison, Phm~e Columbia 4-3 Warden knives which can handle fish as fast· West coasts, from Iceland and tp. '. Robin Henderson l as an operator can feed them onto ScandinaYian countries. ~ _ Cutler. Phone Chas. Smith, Machias 9319 -2 V/arden • the belt. This machine is adjustable I Rivers is assisted in the manuDaniel Johnson to various lengths of fish. facture of 1.he machines by Simon_ Ll.bec. Phone 105-2 Warden Following the head and tail cutter, 1 Hamelainen, his son-in-law who ha .. Herbert Morang Sr. ,,vhic'h was designed and first put into recently returned from fo1;1r :years J o::1 esport V/arden operation in J941, Rivers devel()fled dut? aboard Coast Guard ships 11: the the belly slicer and cleaner. Fish are Pac1fic area. A small ~ut ~k1lle~ Ifed into an adjustable chute. where crew ·work under the d1:ect10n. of I the belly is opened b.y spinning these two_ men. constar._tly imp_rovmg knives. As the fish go through the the machmes and puttmg theu- best endless belt system of the machine, into the manufacture of a. product the insides are cleaned out by 1·otary which will deliver top efficiency. 1 ~ ~ Man S Quest For Food brushes ;rnd high pressure water so Rjvers came to this country in 1915 Augusta-Governor Horace Hil• 1 • that .a trimmed ancj gutted fish ar- -and ,\·as for several years a quarry dreth and t he Executive Council re- ed a specia council commttLee LO The need of more food to feed un ri"v-es at the encl ready for the fillet- worker and shipyard employee in study the proposal. • _.,_ · l t· h • • "' h . cently mace S20.000 available to the .. . . . . . . . ever -mcreasmg popu a IOn as mg mac 1pe. Rockland. Departmen t of Sea and Shore Fish-~Y 1:1ti1iz~"lgd 1.h-e fac1lltie~ oid t~e brought a large part ·of the. arable The filletmg machine, also on the In 1o25 his natural bent for meeries for use in its program for im- u~t e;s1tby, -~de epartmcntts ou e lands of the world under cultwation. I endless belt principle. is adjustable I chanic; l~d him to design and build a permanen program,_ Forests have been le\'cled. s,vamps• and cuts the fillet from both sides at . b P rovement and general development. a e O m 1ean1 program • j d rarneq, • , ana, d eser.t s irnga • • t e d · ."..x= once, the first R esearch and marketing activities of research • an edu,,ational h · hmechamca h · · blue h d erry . ·de cpread of the Department are thus gi\'en a and a general fund of information periments are even being made. in R cent developments now permit er w_ ic ,as smce a wi s new boost. Of the amount transferred that will be of immeasurable ;,en.-ice soilless, agriculture. Con curre11{ly. the machines te be coupled together tlSC m the blueberry areas of the from the state contingent fund. $10. - a nd benefit to the fishing i nd ll'st ry in fishing frontiers have been pushed so tl-iat the fish can be fed into the East. 000 will be used to finance research years to come.·• farther ancl farther out to sea and bead cutter and continue through The design of other labor saving and an equal sum for general de The Governor's special council along the coast lines of the \\'Orld. the other machines emerging at the machinery came easily and when a partment expansion and improve- committee has been discw,sin!; and Now many species of fish are pur- far end, ready for packing and fish packer asked for machinery it men t. studying for some time the nQ;::_<;ibili- sued over thousands of miles of freezing. was just one more step ahead for the • It was the first step toward estab- ty of establishing a course in marine oetan-throughout their rany of The belly slicer came onto the industrious Rivers who has spent 1.he lishment at the Unive r sity of Maine fisheries management. n ,:.F,.;:t.l1. r: distribution. in fact. In expa nd ing market in 1942 and was followed by better part of the last five years of a permanent extension service production. conservation and · propo - these frontier;;, specie,s .new ·,p. ·,he the filleting machine last year. bringing the machines to their presfo r coastal fishing industry. similar gation at th e University of :V[aine. comtne r cial ·world ba,·el been rcJubd The tidbit machine, which is ent state of efficiency. to th e A gricultu r al E xtension Ser- The appropriation of S20.000 was in abundance and exploited. vice. Commissioner Richard E. Reed made only after the soecial <:ouncil For several centuries after ·,he said . had thoroughly studied all ·the prob- Renaissance. fishing and farming adThe plan had been studied since a lems in volved. vanced at more or ~less c?mparable ~~ting in a woods camp deep in j Referring to this p~ogra_m, Gover - r~tes. ~l~en_ :,he Han;ea!1~ "L ea~ue Manre's forests last Fall when the nor H iltifeth stated recently that v-_-as- 'fiot;,nshmo. th€ ,,;_orTd ~aw ,he Governor and Councillors vere , Maine ·s commE;>rcial fishi,ng inaustry n5e ~f tl:_e great herr~ . g and other guests of Councillor Harold V-1. "\Yo:r- had a "remarkable opportll'1ity· ' for fishenes 111 the Atl~nt_I(! off W~- ern then of Bangor. At that time ·,he . expansion and that the administr~ - Europe a,ncl the rapid m'trease m agG overnor. who had sugg~sted ·,he , tion ,vas anxious to help get a "inoi·e ricultura·. _Product10n in_ Centr~l Et1;1move in his inaugural address. nam- progresiive pr()gram started. ·' rope. D1:1n ng the colonYdl peno~ m - - - -~ --- -- - - -- -"'-- _____ North ' America also, fi-shi1\g and ~mm:i::::t:::.uu:i+.:u::~: ::; :: ::nntt:tt::::tt:U::u:::mt!:+.:::::m=m:t: farming ~,arched along at com par• :: able rates. But in rn.ore recent times. tt especially since the middle of the :: nineteenth century, agriculture in ll North America has far out-distanced ; WholesaJe Dealers and Shippers cf all kinds of !: the fishing industry. In general. t his ff has also been true throughout the :: rest of t h e v1orld. As long as more land could be brought into produc- , -:i tio~. le~~ a11d.- lcss xon.sife rat~an vtas , .t" .. given to the sea .is a so"urce of Ioocl. tt! R ecently, however. the trend has .. r ever sedi and . greater _attention is J· · .. being given t o ex1:Hor:tng .fishery re-. - , .., sourc€s and tappi ng _their vast stores I The Best in lobsters of animal protein fooa . If this trend I I .
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B y Patricia Wc bs~er Not since P earl Harbor have the Casco Bay Lines' seven boats been filled to capacity. Summer visitors are taking advantage of the.bay with its 365 scenic islands, touring in the small Aurisco. the Emita, the . l\l[arquoit, the Gurnet, the Tourist, the Sabino and the Admiral. The boats are doing double duty transporting the largest number of Maine visitors in history. While the stops of Peaks and Chebeague Islands attract the most people. G reat and Little Diamond, Cliff, Bailey's, Cousins, Bustins,- and Birch Islands are becomi:cg increasingly popular. Before the days of the automobile, the long tour from Portland to South Harpswell was principally supported by summer residents, and the inner bay trip at the nearer points was created largely for daily sightseers. It ha_s surprised even the Casco Bay Lines that, despite quicker methods · of transportation, this year shows I the greatest increase in water traffic in many years. A popular summer vacation are the tours t hat are sponsored by the Boston & Maine, also trips starting in New York and Philadelphia where a group of anywh~re from ten to fifty people come by bus stopping off in P ortland for the day to visit the
Augusta-Commissioner Richarj:i E. Reed released a new list of all the Department's wardens. Below are given the p r esent war- . dens, heir locations and telephone numbers.
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Ice for Rockland Draggers Provides Winter Work
LIFE AT THE LIGHT STATION
"May we n9t use the Maine Fisherman as a means of once getting in touch ,. ith the old ti (You sure can!-Ed.) ''That's the news from he will close with a poem which my thought fo1· the 1nonth: 'Tis not t~e name. nor kith, n 'Tis not the color of the skin. It is the true heart. that beats That makes Brother."
How would you like to be in their shoes today? Nice way to cool off? ·when ihese pictures were taken, Rod Feyler, above, of Rockland was busy harvesting ice from his pond in Thomaston to supply the Rockland fishing fleet with ice during the coming months. Two big houses were filled and are used to ice up the General Seafoods trawlers operating out of Rockland. Hundreds of tons are used to bring the fish into port in topnotch condition, ready for cutters and packers at the General Seafood plant on Tiilson Avenue, recently opened in the Willia:m L"nderwood plant.
Boil or Bake For Full Flounder Flavor
Old Sloop Brilliant Remodelling at Lubec
Squirrel Point Light, Phipps Harold E. Sea,·ey·s daughter cia Mae, is home for the sum1~ cation after spending the schoo at Cape Newagen with her g parents. She completed the firs at Boothbay Harbor High with no i·ank under 85. lVIiss . Seavey has recently been pro to Sergeant in the U. S. M. C. She trained at Camp Lejeune .. and has been stationed at the S Depot in San Francisco. S~ e to be released in August. J Seavey Pelka received her B. gree from American Intern College, Springfield, Mass. lives at North Granly, Conn. "Recent visitors to tb.;,s s have been Donald Weeks and hi William, and Chief SamsoR iro quin Island, also Benjamin N who .was here for Sunday di The church steeple weatherwhich was badly twisted by th over a year ago has been straig ed by I. S. Rainey of Phippsburi Steuben."
Popular palate and purse pleaser, the Flounder is arriving in heavy shipments to lighten food-shopping difficulties. For instance one day's receipts at one of the large eastern wholesale markets totaled well over a quarter-million pounds. This figure includes the summer flounder or fluke and the sole flounders, lemon sole and gray sole. To get to the bottom of the sole question, the most renowned sole is England"s Dover Sole. However, our native lemon and gray soles are so called because of the great similarity in texture and flavor. Given half a chance, it is believed England would readily convert its eating habits to the American variety. Eng/Jish sole-eaters have declared" a definite preference for our sole when they tried it here.
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NEWS OF GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS along the Coast will appear each month in a section filled with authoritative articles from the Deportment of Sea and Shore Fisheries and bulletins from the Department of the Interior in Washington . . . you will know what steps are proposed to sa'eguard your resources ••• what programs will need your: support and why ..•
CHEMISTRY HAS UNLOCKED THE TREASURES of the Coast and brought new plans for developing na• ' tural by-products such as sea moss, ' algae, fish-meal, vitamin extracts . . . all will affect your day-to-day living and will be explained and recorded for you in the Moine Coast fisherman .••
• WHAT LIES AHEAD FOR THE COAST OF MAINE? ... new events which will affect the future of fishing and ~ coastal industries will be ~xplained a n d ~ ..._ II"" analyzed •. . . should we hove a tariff / 11 on imported fish . . . which way are prices going and why ... new things are hcppening every day which will change your living along the Coast • , 4 read about hem in your Maine Coast Fisherman. -'- •
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