The McCurdy Fish Company in Lubec is the last of the herring smokehouses that once crowded the Down East coastline. In 1983 McCurdy\u27s packed 1.6 million strips of herring meat, each one strung, cut, split, skinned, weighed, and nailed into its wooden box entirely by hand. Angie Sawtelle has been stringing herring for 64 years. She, other workers, and John McCurdy are profiled. Details; Lubec demographics
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NMFS bottom trawl survey data were used to describe changes in distribution, abundance, and rates of...
Menhaden, or pogies as they are sometimes called, during some years account for 40 percent of all At...
The McCurdy Fish Company in Lubec is the last of the herring smokehouses that once crowded the Down ...
Between the two World Wars, Maine canneries kept up with the high demand for sardines as storable fo...
A long article detailing the decline in the number of alewives caught in recent years. The emotiona...
In the first half of the 20th century, herring were fished primarily with small-scale, low-impact ge...
Annual sardine pack reports by county and factory, including names and locations of factories, and q...
The Harris family of Harris Point has been processing herring in Eastport for generations, but their...
North by East statistic on the decline of the sardine industry in Maine, from 75 canneries in 1900,...
The L. Ray Packing Company in Milbridge is run by the Rays, who have been in the packing business si...
Maine fishermen have averaged 50 to 60 million pounds of herring a year for the last five years, usi...
In the 1930s and 1940s, the arrival of sardine carriers was the annual highlight for Maine coast her...
Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) play a foundational role in human-ocean systems. While once abunda...
Characteristics of the spawning population of Atlantic herring along the Maine coast are inferred fr...
The sardine is not a fish. It is a particular method of processing fish that was pioneered in Sardin...
NMFS bottom trawl survey data were used to describe changes in distribution, abundance, and rates of...
Menhaden, or pogies as they are sometimes called, during some years account for 40 percent of all At...
The McCurdy Fish Company in Lubec is the last of the herring smokehouses that once crowded the Down ...
Between the two World Wars, Maine canneries kept up with the high demand for sardines as storable fo...
A long article detailing the decline in the number of alewives caught in recent years. The emotiona...
In the first half of the 20th century, herring were fished primarily with small-scale, low-impact ge...
Annual sardine pack reports by county and factory, including names and locations of factories, and q...
The Harris family of Harris Point has been processing herring in Eastport for generations, but their...
North by East statistic on the decline of the sardine industry in Maine, from 75 canneries in 1900,...
The L. Ray Packing Company in Milbridge is run by the Rays, who have been in the packing business si...
Maine fishermen have averaged 50 to 60 million pounds of herring a year for the last five years, usi...
In the 1930s and 1940s, the arrival of sardine carriers was the annual highlight for Maine coast her...
Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) play a foundational role in human-ocean systems. While once abunda...
Characteristics of the spawning population of Atlantic herring along the Maine coast are inferred fr...
The sardine is not a fish. It is a particular method of processing fish that was pioneered in Sardin...
NMFS bottom trawl survey data were used to describe changes in distribution, abundance, and rates of...
Menhaden, or pogies as they are sometimes called, during some years account for 40 percent of all At...