Islands Museum
Long and Brier Islands, Nova Scotia
Gallery Thumbnail Gallery Stories Contact Us Search
 

Survival of A People: Using our Natural Resources 1875-1975
Images:

 
Ann Ameriault 'blacks' fish at D. B. Kenney Fisheries c. 1975
163 of 294 		Hubert Thomas checks equipment at a fish plant in Freeport.
164 of 294 		Sorting scallops
165 of 294 		Nancy Swift at scale
166 of 294 		Laurence Outhouse Sr. and his wife, Doris, standing in front of wooden lobster traps.
167 of 294 		Edgar Whitenect knits a trap head .
168 of 294
Ted Thurber shows a bouy and coil of rope attached to a lobster trap.
169 of 294 		This is an example of the type of container used by fish plants to 'can' cooked lobster meat.
170 of 294 		Fisherman's needles used to knit trap heads or repair nets.
171 of 294 		Swivels attached to the lobster traps.
172 of 294 		Floats used with lobster traps. The corked bottle has sometimes been termed a 'poor man's float'.
173 of 294 		Cork floats used with lobster traps.
174 of 294
Wooden bouy used in lobster fishing. They attached to the lobster trap.
175 of 294 		Lobster traps on the Government Wharf await 'Setting day', the last Monday in November
176 of 294 		Dry Lobster Smacks
177 of 294 		The 'Chester Marshall' and 'Grace Kirby' picking up lobsters from a D.B. Kenney lobster car.
178 of 294 		Sometimes lobsters are different colors than red. Here is a blue lobster as it came from the trap.
179 of 294 		A tuna caught at Westport in the 1940s
180 of 294

Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

Important Notices  
© 2024 All Rights Reserved