New fisheries exhibition at the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath is a treat to the eyes of the fish lovers and fishermen. Dana Morse, the extension associate for the Maine Sea Grant program, said that he was really excited about that kind of display and about the model and full-size trawling nets on view in the new fisheries exhibition at the Maine Maritime Museum, in Bath.
The exhibition named “Net Worth: The Rise and Fall of Maine’s Fin Fisheries” opened May 2 and will run to November 29. It is told that the exhibition has a wide-range, involving history going back to Basque and Portuguese fishermen. Christopher Hall, curator of exhibitions at the museum, admit that coming after cod over here was the start of many an empire.
Hall informed that he planned to show fishing methods and gear from the early 19th century up to the present. The exhibit includes recent photographs of what Hall called the “day in, day out slogging away in the fisheries. Craig A. Pendleton, a former Saco groundfisherman and coordinating director of Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance (NAMA) said that a lot of our focus at NAMA was about teaching the public exactly what we did.
According to Hall one of the nets they are showing is only a portion of a net from a net making company from Deer Isle. During WW II and many years before, but during WW II, they made trawl net. They received a sample from Iceland which was never used. That whole industry is gone. That net is made with [natural fibers] sisal. Other great pictures came from photographer Murfitt, who said he went out on 67-foot groundfishing boat for five days to document the alternating chaos and monotony of offshore fishing.
