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Handline for cod

Document Type: Artifact
Geographic Location: Boothbay Harbor, Maine
Date: 1925s
Creator: unknown
ID Number: 1981_28_2
Keywords: Fisheries, 1981.28.1


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Description:
Fishing line, including reel, sinker, hooks, for cod fishing. Used by Boothbay fishermen in North Atlantic fisheries in the 1920s. This line was tarred linen or cotton.

One of the few left of the tens of thousands of these handlines.


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