Identifier
NA 806 (local)
Date
1974 (Date created)
Summary
H. B. Calkins interviewed by David Taylor, February 23, 1974, and March 16, 1974, at Calkins’s home in Hampden, Maine. (ISO 100). 6 page index. Discusses weir fishing on the Penobscot River, during the 1920s and 30s, near Winterport & Bangor, especially Gilmore Beach, Whitney Beach, and Castle Rock; weirs owned by F. E. (Floyd) Whitney; setting weirs, building weirs, weir season (summer), shape of weir, fish caught in weirs (smelts, alewives, and salmon), tending the weir, fishing rights; reasons for outlawing weirs and gill nets; Lester Stubbs, warden and fisherman, had 10 weirs on Penobscot River. Talks about gill netting, financial returns, catching smelts; sturgeon fishing, fishing methods, drift netting, marketing and size of sturgeon; salmon fishing, nets, daily activities, marketing. Discusses fish camps and their furnishings; fishing with bag nets in the winter; Winterport fishermen Sidney Johnson and Lin Perkins; eel potting at Stubbs Point, Oak Point, Rooster Rock, and Bald Hill Cove, baiting the pots, marketing, spearing eels, eel barrels; in gill nets. Also mentions John Rowe and Ronald Randolph. Penobscot River Commercial Fisheries Project. Tape 1 hour: T733-T734
Language
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Other Subject Headings
weir fishing on the Penobscot River (Local)
