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

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