SERIES
Interview with Gerald Crommett
Identifier
NA 1997 (local)
Date
1974 (Date created)
Summary
Gerald Crommett interviewed by David Taylor, October 9, 1973, at Crommett’s home in Passadumkeag, Maine. 3 page index. Crommett discusses his years as an eel fisherman; buying his own weir as a young man; current business as an eel wholesaler; buying saltwater and freshwater eels; eel fishermen along the east coast from the Maritime Provinces to Georgia; national and international marketing of eels; details of equipment and catches from different ways of catching eels including eel pots or traps, fight nets, and weirs; and silver eels. Penobscot River Commercial Fisheries Project. Tape 45 minutes: T1964
Language
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Other Subject Headings
eel fisherman (Local)
