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Mf037 “Life Of The Maine Lobsterman” Project, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine Jan 2020

Mf037 “Life Of The Maine Lobsterman” Project, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

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The bulk of the nineteen accessions (33 hours) in this collection consists of interviews by David Taylor conducted during the summer of 1974 focused on Maine lobster fishermen.


Mf049 Penobscot River Commercial Fisheries Project / David Taylor, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine Jan 2020

Mf049 Penobscot River Commercial Fisheries Project / David Taylor, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids

This collection consists of a series of interviews conducted by David Taylor with eight fishermen about the commercial fisheries of the Penobscot River in Maine. Taylor interviewed men who fished for smelt, salmon, sturgeon, alewives, eels, and cod; also an eel wholesaler. Methods discussed include net fishing; weir fishing; and winter fishing. Towns discussed include Winterport; Frankfort; and Bangor.


Mf160 Fisheries / Ted Ames Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine Jan 2020

Mf160 Fisheries / Ted Ames Collection, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids

There are two parts of the Fisheries / Ted Ames Collection, but both are recordings by Ted Ames that have to do with fisheries. Part I a series of interviews by Ames about the fishing grounds in the Gulf of Maine and Penobscot Bay fisheries. Part II is recordings from the Localized Fishery Stocks conference attended and recorded by Ted Ames about the implications of localized fish stocks on October 31 and November 1, 1997.