ACCESSION SHEET Maine Folklife Center

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1 Accession Fisheries/ ed Ames Name: C 2456 C 1124 John Ames mfc_na3315_cd1124.1_ A 01 mfc_na3315_cd1124.2_ 01 escription: 3315 John Ames interviewed by ed Ames January Ames talks about spawning grounds for fishing in Maine; best location and season for fishing; fishing around eal Island; fishing techniques like hand lining and trolling; bottom locations for hake haddock cod cusk and herring; fishing in the late 1800s early 1900s; redfish fishing near the Canadian shore; fishing seasons by species; techniques to have a good fishing year; details of tub trolling; how to start out fishing in Maine. ext: 25 pp. transcript Recording: mfc_na3315_cd1124.1_01 - mfc_na3315_cd1124.3_ minutes Related s No release. Copyright retained by interviewee and interviewer and/or their heirs

2 Accession Fisheries/ ed Ames Name: C 2457 C 1131 mfc_na3316_cd1131_01 A Clarence Bennett escription: 3316 Clarence Bennett interviewed by ed Ames. Bennett talks about enobscot Bay fisheries. ext: 28 pp. transcript Recording: mfc_na3316_cd1131_01 50 minutes Related s No release. Copyright retained by interviewee and interviewere and/or their heirs

3 Accession Fisheries/ ed Ames Name: C 2458 C 1132 mfc_na3317_cd1132_01 A Arthur Colbeth escription: 3317 Arthur Colbeth interviewed by ed Ames. Colbeth talks about enobscot Bay fisheries. Recording: mfc_na3317_cd1132_01 15 minutes Related s No release. Copyright retained by interviewee and interviewere and/or their heirs

4 Accession Fisheries/ ed Ames Name: C 2459 C 1133 Elmer Gross mfc_na3318_cd1133_01 mfc_na3318_cd1133_02 escription: 3318 Elmer Gross interviewed by ed Ames February 14 West alm Beach Florida. Gross talks about his profession as a fisherman in tonington Maine in the 1940s and 50s; the kind of fish he d catch; where he went to find fish; encountering a German submarine; names of different fishing vessels and owners; names of fellow fishermen; size of hauls; bycatching lobsters; fishing off Cutler and Grand Manan; Old ow Whirlpool; using pigeons for communication; who had passed away; some of the problems of fishing. ext: 18 pp. transcript Recording: mfc_na3318_cd1133_01 - mfc_na3318_cd1133_07 35 minutes Related s No release. Copyright retained by interviewee and interviewere and/or their heirs

5 Accession Fisheries/ ed Ames Name: C 2460 C mfc_na3319_c2460_01 A mfc_na3319_c2460_02 Merton Rich escription: 3319 Merton Rich interviewed by ed Ames (date and place unknown). Rich talks about the procedure for a sternman to get a master s license for fishing; fishing as a family tradition versus learning it off the street; the knowledge and investment that goes into being a successful fisherman; disadvantages of lobsterman meetings; consequences of illegal fishing and impact on the business; how to get a good haul in lobster trapping; what should be done to control fishing and maintain the industry. ext: 12 pp. transcript (only 02 transcribed) Recordings: mfc_na3319_c2460_01 & mfc_na3319_c2460_ minutes Related s No release. Copyright retained by interviewee and interviewere and/or their heirs

6 Accession Fisheries/ ed Ames Name: C C 1134 mfc_na3321_cd1134_01 A Eddie horn Johnson escription: 3321 Eddie horn Johnson interviewed by ed Ames (date and place unknown). Johnson talks about red fishing in Maine in the early 60s; early fishing experiences on the Maine shore for red fishing shrimp and whiting; good cod fishing places in Maine; pen raising fish and releasing them in the wild; government programs growing fish and their negotiations with fishermen; practical approach to setting up a fish farming business; ways of increasing fish population along the east Maine coast; changes in Maine fisheries from the 60s to present; ways to regulate fishing so fishermen can make a living and leave sustainable resources. ext: 34 pp. transcript Recording: mfc_na3321_cd1134_01 74 minutes Related s No release. Copyright retained by interviewee and interviewere and/or their heirs

7 Accession Fisheries/ ed Ames Name: C C Bernard Raynes mfc_na3454_cd1135_01 mfc_na3454_cd1135_02 escription: 3454 Bernard Raynes interviewed by ed Ames Raynes talks about practicality of farm raised fish as a fishery; locating fish to start a sustainable farm fishery; importance in cycling between fishing types and catching different species; ways to make fishing sustainable and restock fishing areas that are becoming less populated; scallop fishing in the 70s; some fishing spots could be closed off without hurting fishermen and be used to try and repopulate the fish population there; hotspot locations for fishing in the recent past along the Maine coast; map use to mark fishing locations and paths to get to them; fishing practices and locations passed down by family; barren fishing locations used up by previous generations; reappearance of species like haddock; fishing spots damaged by pollution and those recovered by removal of pollution. Recording: mfc_na3454_cd1135_01 - mfc_na3454_cd2024_05 94 minutes Related s No release. Copyright retained by interviewee and interviewere and/or their heirs

8 Accession Fisheries/ ed Ames Name: C C * mfc_na3455_cd1136_cd A 1154_01 ick Jellison escription: 3455 ick Jellison interviewed by ed Ames. Jellison talks about enobscot Bay fisheries. Recording: mfc_na3455_cd1136_cd1154_01 93 minutes Related s No release. Copyright retained by interviewee and interviewere and/or their heirs

9 Accession Fisheries/ ed Ames Name: C C 1129 mfc_na3456_cd1129_01 A George Lawson escription: 3456 George Lawson interviewed by ed Ames. Lawson talks about enobscot Bay fisheries. Recording: mfc_na3456_cd1129_01 19 minutes Related s No release. Copyright retained by interviewee and interviewere and/or their heirs

10 Accession Fisheries/ ed Ames Name: C C 1125 mfc_na3457_cd1125_01 A Bill argent escription: 3457 Bill argent interviewed by ed Amesion January ? tonington Maine. argent talks about fishing locations for cod and haddock in the recent past; methods for ground fishing; time of year that fish were caught in old Maine fishing locations; use of foot rope in past fishing; locating fish by following their feed; catching haddock in the early 80s; effect of stress on a fish population. Recording: mfc_na3457_cd1125_01 85 minutes Related s No release. Copyright retained by interviewee and interviewere and/or their heirs

11 Accession Fisheries/ ed Ames Name: C C 1127 Collis Jones mfc_na3458_cd1127_01 mfc_na3458_cd1127_02 escription: 3458 Collis Jones interviewed by ed Ames (date and place unknown). Jones talks about the fishing grounds in the Gulf of Maine; catching black back flounder off kate Bank and in Grand Manan Channel; fishing at the mouth of the t. Croix River; fishing for haddock in the Bay of Fundy; fishing around the Wolves; Bulkhead Rip below Grand Manan; what fishing was like in the past; dangers of fishing near tankers; fishing around inalhaven; identification of spawning grounds; rules to protect the fisheries; fishermen can t make a living with limits on cod fishing; big corporations will probably control fishing on the east coast; setting mesh size Nordmore grate and shrimp gear should help; lobster fishing in 1953 in Grand Manan Channel; help with lumping out; raising fish in pens; experienced fishermen should help set fishing regulations; helping other fishermen so they would not make the same mistakes he made. Recording: mfc_na3458_cd1127_01 - mfc_na3458_cd1127_04 24 minutes Related s No release. Copyright retained by interviewee and interviewer and/or their heirs

12 Accession Fisheries/ ed Ames Name: C 2512 C 1126 mfc_na3459_cd1126_01 A Alvin Jones escription: 3459 Alvin Jones interviewed by ed Ames. Jones talks about enobscot Bay fisheries. Recording: mfc_na3459_cd1126_01 47 minutes Related s No release. Copyright retained by interviewee and interviewere and/or their heirs

13 Accession Fisheries/ ed Ames Name: C C 1137 aul enno mfc_na3460_cd1137_01 mfc_na3460_cd1137_02 escription: 3460 aul enno interviewed by ed Ames February at enno s bait house in Harborside Maine. enno talk about enobscot Bay fisheries; places enno fished when he was younger including off Lincolnville urtle Head Fort oint Ledge Orrs Cove Barred Islands; hatching blackbacks; flounder; seals eating lobsters; his relatives selling hogies; what it was like lobstering in the early days around 1880 and 1890; hunting sea birds; about ten years ago they could catch fish right off the dock in Eastport; fishing with his grandfather around addleback; cod fishing; dragger towing; cod eating lobsters; shag population; blackbacks; eider ducks; eelgrass; urchins; how to set out a trawl; preventing snarls. Related s No release. Copyright retained by interviewee and interviewer and/or their heirs.

14 Accession Fisheries/ ed Ames Name: C C mfc_na3461_cd1138_01 mfc_na3461_cd1138_02 Ellsworth anford and Ray Miller escription: 3461 Ellsworth anford and Ray Miller interviewed by ed Ames. anford and Miller talk about enobscot Bay fisheries. Recording: mfc_na3461_cd1138_01 - mfc_na3461_cd2562_ minutes Related s No release. Copyright retained by interviewee and interviewere and/or their heirs

15 Accession Fisheries/ ed Ames Name: C C 1139 mfc_na3462_cd1139_01 A Will pear escription: 3462 Will pear interviewed by ed Ames. pear talks about enobscot Bay fisheries. Recording: mfc_na3462_cd1139_01 32 minutes Related s No release. Copyright retained by interviewee and interviewere and/or their heirs

16 Accession Fisheries/ ed Ames Name: C C 1140 mfc_na3463_cd1140_01 mfc_na3463_cd1140_02 Craig endleton and Charlie endleton escription: 3463 Craig endleton and Charlie endleton interviewed by ed Ames (date and place unknown) about the fishing grounds in the Gulf of Maine. he endleton talks about how to bring back the depleted fishing grounds around Wood Island; what the fishery was like in years past; Machias Bay Cod Run; fishermen know more about controlling the fisheries than a research scientist sitting in a laboratory or some manager sitting at a desk; fish around Long Hill the Whistler Hue and Cry Old Orchard Ground; cod haddock; runken Ledge; cod came because of fresh water springs; sloops and shallops; the Lambo New Meadows River; pollock and hake in the Kettle; Hawk Wings; agadahoc Church teeple hoals; fish whiting east of Half Way Rock; many whiting boats out of ortland. Recording: mfc_na3463_cd1140_01 - mfc_na3463_cd1140_12 57 minutes Related s No release. Copyright retained by interviewee and interviewer and/or their heirs

17 Accession Fisheries/ ed Ames Name: C C 1141 Avery Kelly mfc_na3464_cd1141_01 mfc_na3464_cd1141_02 escription: 3464 Avery Kelly interviewed by ed Ames (date and place unknown). Kelly talks about the fishing grounds in the Gulf of Maine; a story about federal marshals seizing his boat and load of fish in ortland harbor; how he got one of his crew out of jail and got him to Jonesport; what fishing was like in the old days; stories about his father and grandfather who were fishermen; fishing around Moosabec Bank and Buffets Rock in the fifties and sixties; fishing for haddock and cod; story about not getting any fish and telling a crew member to shave off his mustache because that was keeping them from getting fish. Recording: mfc_na3464_cd1141_01 - mfc_na3464_cd1141_07 32 minutes Related s No release. Copyright retained by interviewee and interviewer and/or their heirs

18 Accession Fisheries/ ed Ames Name: C C 1143 Ray Gilmore mfc_na3466_cd1143_01 mfc_na3466_cd1143_02 escription: 3466 Ray Gilmore interviewed by ed Ames (date and place unknown). Gilmore talks about the fishing grounds in the Gulf of Maine; restocking of fisheries off wans Island Bar Harbor eguin heepscot; effect of gill nets on ocean bottom near Rockport; effect of gill netting and dragging on the ocean bottom; dragging affected ocean bottom near Isle au Haut inalhaven eal Island Jeffreys Bank; bathymetric chart; marking of charts; haddock fishing near Cranberry Island; gilling off Matinicus; how to estimate the population of fish in an area; effect of draggers on fish populations; discarding by draggers of small dead fish. Recording: mfc_na3466_cd1143_01 - mfc_na3466_cd1143_06 32 minutes Related s No release. Copyright retained by interviewee and interviewer and/or their heirs

19 Accession Fisheries/ ed Ames Name: C C 1144 Jerry Balzano mfc_na3467_cd1144_01 mfc_na3467_cd1144_02 escription: 3467 Jerry Balzano interviewed by ed Ames (date and place unknown). Balzano talks about the fishing grounds in the Gulf of Maine; the fishing skills of [Ellsworth(?)] anford; fishing around Richmond Island; use of Nordmore grate; what ground gear to use to cause the least damage; fishing at the Hue and Cry Gully; tagging of fish being dispersed; spawning grounds of cod and haddock. Recording: mfc_na3467_cd1144_01 - mfc_na3467_cd1144_03 14 minutes Related s No release. Copyright retained by interviewee and interviewer and/or their heirs

20 Accession Fisheries/ ed Ames Name: C C 1145 Barna Norton mfc_na3468_cd1145_01 mfc_na3468_cd1145_02 escription: 3468 Barna Norton interviewed by ed Ames. Recording: mfc_na3468_cd1145_01 - mfc_na3468_cd1145_12 60 minutes Related s

21 Accession Fisheries/ ed Ames Name: C C 1146 Ellis Batson mfc_na3469_cd1146_01 mfc_na3469_cd1146_02 escription: 3469 Ellis Batson interviewed by ed Ames (date and place unknown). Batson talks about the fishing grounds in the Gulf of Maine: disappearance of fish around Cape Neddick because sewer treatment plant dumping chlorine; fishing for black backs on kate Banks and Grand Manan Channel off Boot Head; historical habitat survey; places where fish ought to be released; how cod and haddock never return if wiped out; many spawn cod fish outside Merrimack; no spawn fish on Cape orpoise eak; more issues than overfishing: size of mesh closing of spawning grounds throwing back dead fish; how Batson started sardine fishing in 1950 and then went ground fishing ( 60s); shrimping; time of year when fish spawned; effect urchins and kelp; food fish; effect of pollution; overfishing not a problem on Georges Bank; repeatability of appearance of fish in certain areas; squid in Nantucket ound; should size of gear and boats be regulated; should be a boundary for big boats. Recording: mfc_na3469_cd1146_01 - mfc_na3469_cd1146_06 29 minutes Related s No release. Copyright retained by interviewee and interviewer and/or their heirs

22 Accession Fisheries/ ed Ames Name: C C 1147 Roger Beal mfc_na3470_cd1147_01 mfc_na3470_cd1147_02 escription: 3470 Roger Beal interviewed by ed Ames. Recording: mfc_na3470_cd1147_01 - mfc_na3470_cd1147_09 41 minutes Related s No release. Copyright retained by interviewee and interviewere and/or their heirs

23 Accession Fisheries/ ed Ames Name: C C 1152 George eavcy mfc_na3476_cd1152_01 mfc_na3476_cd1152_02 escription: 3476 George eavy interviewed by ed Ames. Recording: mfc_na3476_cd1152_01 - mfc_na3476_cd1152_10 49 minutes Related s No release. Copyright retained by interviewee and interviewer and/or their heirs

24 Accession Fisheries/ ed Ames Name: C 2594 C mfc_na3605_cd2028_01 mfc_na3605_cd2028_02 escription: 3605 Recorded by ed Ames October Localized Fishey tocks conference attended and recorded by Ames. ext: 2 pp. transcript Recordings: mfc_na3605_cd2028_01 - mfc_na3605_cd2029_09 94 minutes Related s Copyright retained by interviewer and interviewee and/or their heirs.

25 Accession Fisheries/ ed Ames Name: C 2595 C mfc_na3606_cd2030_01 mfc_na3606_cd2030_02 escription: 3606 Recorded by ed Ames October Localized Fishey tocks conference attended and recorded by Ames. Recordings: mfc_na3606_cd2030_01 - mfc_na3606_cd2031_09 93 minutes Related s Copyright retained by interviewer and interviewee and/or their heirs.

26 Accession Fisheries/ ed Ames Name: C 2596 C mfc_na3607_cd2032_01 mfc_na3607_cd2032_02 escription: 3607 Recorded by ed Ames October Localized Fishey tocks conference attended and recorded by Ames. Recordings: mfc_na3607_cd2032_01 - mfc_na3607_cd2033_09 94 minutes Related s Copyright retained by interviewer and interviewee and/or their heirs.

27 Accession Fisheries/ ed Ames Name: C 2597 C 2034 mfc_na3608_cd2034_01 mfc_na3608_cd2034_02 escription: 3608 Recorded by ed Ames October Localized Fishey tocks conference attended and recorded by Ames. Recordings: mfc_na3608_cd2034_01 - mfc_na3608_cd2034_14 Related s Copyright retained by interviewer and interviewee and/or their heirs.

28 Accession Fisheries/ ed Ames Name: C 2598 C mfc_na3609_cd2035_01 mfc_na3609_cd2035_02 escription: 3609 Recorded by ed Ames November Localized Fishery tocks conference attended and recorded by Ames about the implications of localized fish stocks. Recordings: mfc_na3609_cd2035_01 - mfc_na3609_cd2036_09 93 minutes Related s Copyright retained by interviewer and interviewee and/or their heirs.

29 Accession Fisheries/ ed Ames Name: C 2599 C mfc_na3610_cd2037_01 mfc_na3610_cd2037_02 escription: 3610 Recorded by ed Ames November Localized Fishery tocks conference attended and recorded by Ames about the implications of localized fish stocks. Recordings: mfc_na3610_cd2037_01 - mfc_na3610_cd2038_09 94 minutes Related s Copyright retained by interviewer and interviewee and/or their heirs.

30 Accession Fisheries/ ed Ames Name: C 2600 C mfc_na3611_cd2039_01 mfc_na3611_cd2039_02 escription: 3611 Recorded by ed Ames November Localized Fishery tock conference attended and recorded by Ames about the implications of localized fish stocks for the restoration of historical sites. Recordings: mfc_na3611_cd2039_01 - mfc_na3611_cd2040_09 94 minutes Related s Copyright retained by interviewer and interviewee and/or their heirs.

31 Accession Fisheries/ ed Ames Name: C 2601 C mfc_na3612_cd2041_01 mfc_na3612_cd2041_02 escription: 3612 Recorded by ed Ames November Localized Fishery tocks conference attended and recorded by Ames about the implications of localized fish stocks. Recordings: mfc_na3612_cd2041_01 - mfc_na3612_cd2042_09 94 minutes Related s Copyright retained by interviewer and interviewee and/or their heirs.

32 Accession Fisheries/ ed Ames Name: C 2602 C mfc_na3613_cd2043_01 mfc_na3613_cd2043_02 escription: 3613 Recorded by ed Ames November Localized Fishery tocks conference attended and recorded by ed Ames about the implications of localized fish stocks. Recordings: mfc_na3613_cd2043_01 - mfc_na3613_cd2044_08 85 minutes Related s Copyright retained by interviewer and interviewee and/or their heirs.