Fisheries

CHILDREN’S BOOKS
Allen, J.J. and William O. Thompson. A Boy, His Grandfather, and a Lighthouse. Kennebunk, ME: ‘Scapes Me, 2003. Includes a storm, a shipwreck, and a day of lobstering.

Bayer, Robert and Juanita. Lobsters Inside-Out: A Guide to the Maine Lobster. New Hampshire: Sea Grant College Program, 1987.

Bayer, Robert and Juanita. Lobsters Inside-Out: A Lobster Workbook. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 1999.

Brown, Joseph E. The Sea’s Harvest: The Story of Aquaculture. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1975. History of aquaculture, 2000 BC to 1970s. Black and white photographs, upper elementary grades.

Brown, Margaret Wise and Leonard Weisgand. The Little Island. New York: Random House Children’s Books, 1946. Early elementary level.

Buss, Nancy. The Lobster and Ivy Higgins. Honesdale, PA: Caroline House, 1992. A girl wants to save the 27 pound lobster her father has in his store. Early elementary level.

Carrick, Carol. The Blue Lobster: A Life Cycle. New York: Dial Press, 1975. The life of a female lobster from the time she is hatched until her own eggs are mature. Upper elementary grades.

Chase, Mary Ellen. The Fishing Fleets of New England. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961. History of the Grand Banks fisheries, with some photographs. Mostly text, for middle elementary grades.

Coggins, J. Nets Overboard: The Story of the Fishing Fleets. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1965. Boats, fishing gear, and all kinds of fish and shellfish. Upper elementary grades.

Cooper, Jason. Lobsters. Vero Beach, FL: Rourke Publications, 1996. A simple introduction to the physical characteristics, life cycle and habitat of the lobster.

Dethier, V.G. Newberry: The Life and Times of a Maine Clam. Camden, Maine: Down East Books, 1981. Story of a clam’s life. Lengthy; for older elementary grades.

Floethe, L. Fishing Around the World. New York: Scribner, 1972. Common problems of fishermen around the world. Upper elementary grades.

Guiberson, Brenda Z. Lobster Boat. New York: H. Hold & Co., 1993. Picture book about a day on a lobster boat. Good pictures. Ages 4-8.

Harriman, Edward. Leroy the Lobster and Crabby Crab. Camden, ME: Down East Books, 1967.

Hollenbeck, Kathleen. The Lobster’s Secret. Norwalk, CT: Soundprints, 1996. A lobster hunts for food, watches for predators, and molts. Good pictures. Ages 4-8.

Ipcar, Dahlov. Lobsterman. Camden, ME: Down East Books, 1962. Picture book about lobstering. Ages 4-8.

Kessler, Deirdre. Lobster in my Pocket. Charlottetown, PEI: Ragweed Press, 1987. The story of a little girl in a fishing village who befriends a lobster. Ages 4-8.

Kurlansky, Mark. The Cod’s Tale. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2001. An excellent picture book on the history of the cod fishery. Includes good illustrations, examples of sea shanties, and fish recipes. Ages 6-12.

Lavies, Bianca. The Atlantic Salmon. New York: Dutton’s Children’s Books, 1992. The life cycle of the salmon. Ages 8-12.

Matteson, George. Draggermen: A Day’s Work Fishing Georges Bank. New York: Four Winds Press, 1979. Commercial fishing aboard a trawler, with good photographs. Upper elementary, middle school.

McCloskey, Robert. Burt Dow, Deep-Water Man. New York: Penguin Books, 1963. A tall tale about a Maine fisherman. Ages 4-8.

McMillan, Bruce. Finestkind O’Day: Lobstering in Maine. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1977. A young boy works as a sternman on a lobster boat. Nice photographs and story with lots of information. Ages 7-12.

Schaefer, Lola. Lobsters. Chicago: Heineman Library, 2002. Basic introduction to lobsters’ physical characteristics, habitat, diet, and activities. Easy text, chapter, glossary. Good introduction to chapter books for young elementary readers.

Verrier, Suzy. Titus Tidewater. Camden, Me: Downeast Books, 1970. A lobster picture book. Ages 4-8.

Weiner, Sandra. I Want to be a Fisherman. New York: Macmillan, 1978. A little girl wants to follow in her father’s footsteps as a Long Island trap fisherman. Ages 6-10.

HIGH SCHOOL/ADULT BOOKS
LOBSTERING
Acheson, James M. Capturing the Commons. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2003. A look at the management of the lobster industry.

Acheson, James M. The Lobster Gangs of Maine. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1988. The lobster fishery in Maine and how fishermen manage their terretories.

Conkling, Philip, and Anne Hayden. Lobsters Great and Small. Rockland, ME: Island Institute, 2002. A report on a collaborative study of lobstering and the ecology and oceanography  of Penobscot Bay conducted by fishermen and scientists. Well illustrated. Excellent presentation of the biology of the lobster.

Corson, Trevor. The Secret Life of Lobsters. New York: HarperCollins, 2004. Fishermen and scientists work to unravel mysteries about the American lobster.

Doliber, Earl. Lobstering Inshore and Offshore. Camden, Maine: International Marine Publishing Company, 1973.

Gilbert, Elizabeth. Stern Men. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin Company, 2000. A novel depicting a feud between two islands over fishing rights.

Greenlaw, Linda. The Lobster Chronicles: Life on a Very Small Island. New York: Hyperion, 2002. Life as a lobster fisherman on Isle au Haut.

Martin, Kenneth R. and Nathan R. Lipfert. Lobstering and the Maine Coast. Bath, Maine: Maine Maritime Museum, 1985. Easy reading story of lobster fishery from colonial times through 1985. Contains photographs, drawings, and anecdotes.

Martin, Robert Delano. The Tale of the Lobster. Bloomington, IN: 1st Books, 2002. Overview of the lobster and the lobster industry, including anatomy and biology, the lobster fisherman, buying and eating lobster.

FISHING GENERAL
Bowden, Don and Minnie. Smelt Fishing on the Lower Penobscot: The Men and Their Families, and Other Stories. Privately published. 1998.

Chapelle, Howard. American Fishing Schooners, 1825-1935. New York: Norton, 1973.

Church, Albert Cook. American Fishermen. New York: W. W. Norton &  Co., 1940. Lots of photographs, many from the author’s marine collection.

Commercial Fisheries News. Stonington, ME. Monthly fisheries newspaper for the Northeast.

Crowley, Michael and Nance Trueworthy. Down the Shore: Faces of Maine’s Coastal Fisheries. Camden, ME: Down East Books, 2003. Photographs and text portray contemporary men and women who earn their living along Maine’s coast.

Duncan, Roger. Coastal Maine: A Maritime History. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1992. General history of Maine with information on fisheries.

Finn, William. The Dragger. Boston: Little, Brown, 1970. Commercial fishing boats. Good photos.

Gilman, John D. Masts and Masters: A Brief History of Sardine Carriers and Boatmen. Lord’s Cove, Deer Island, NB: J.D. Gilman, 1993. History of the sardine fishery.

Goode, G. Brown. The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States. Washington: Govt. Printing Office, 1884-87. This seven-volume set baseline for fisheries studies, just after the U.S. Fish Commission was founded. An excellent, if hard-to-find resource. At Penobscot Marine Museum. These volumes are on line at NOAA and Volume V at Mystic Seaport Museum.

Hamlin, Cyrus, and John R. Ordway. The Commercial Fisheries of Maine. Maine Sea Grant Bulletin 5. United States Department of Commerce, 1974.

Kurlansky, Mark. Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World. NY: Penguin Group, 1998. A view of history as it has been influenced by the demand for cod, and the ecological outcomes.

Lunt, Dean L. Hauling by Hand: The Life and Times of a Maine Island. Frenchboro, ME: Islandport Press, 1999. The story of past and present life on Long Island, one of fourteen Maine islands still supporting a year-round community.

Maine Department of Marine Resources. Harvesters of the Sea: The Story of Maine’s Commercial Fisheries. Augusta, ME: Maine Department of Marine Resources, 1977. The history of fisheries in Maine.

Maine Department of Sea and Shore Fisheries. Report of Commissioner of Sea and Shore Fisheries. Augusta. ME, 1897-1919. Penobscot Marine Museum has 1903-4 and 1913-14. Portland Public Library has a complete set.

Maine. Governor’s Task Force on the Maine Groundfish Industry. Augusta, ME: Office of the Governor, 2004.

McFarland, Raymond. A History of the New England Fisheries, with Maps. Mansfield, CT: Martino Publishing, 2002. Facsimile edition of 1911 edition published by University of Pennsylvania.

National Fisherman. Portland, ME. Monthly fisheries magazine.

O’Leary, Wayne M. Maine Sea Fisheries: The Rise and Fall of a Native Industry, 1830-1890. Boston, Northeastern University Press, 1996. Very detailed account of fisheries from pre-colonial times to 1990s. Small section on lobstering.

Sheehan, M. Elizabeth. Maine Fisheries: A Re-Emerging Market. Augusta, ME: Coastal Enterprises, Inc., Maine Department of Marine Resources, 2000.

Sheehan, M. Elizabeth. Tracking Commercial Fishing Access: A Survey of Harbormasters in 25 Maine Coastal Communities. Portland, ME: Coastal Enterprises, Inc; Augusta, ME: Maine Coastal Program, 2004.

VIDEOS
Flynn, George. Lobster and Scallop Fishing, in Penobscot Bay, Maine. Searsport, ME: Penobscot Marine Museum.

Realm of the Lobster. Nick Caloyianis, 2000. Good footage of the lobster’s environment, with prey and predators.

Conover, David. A Tale of Two Fisheries. Camden, ME: Compass Light Productions, 1997. Comparison of the lobster and cod fisheries. Part of Ocean Fisheries Case Study Series, Compass Light Documentary, Mainewatch, and Island Institute. 1996. A three part video series examining marine ecosystems, cod and lobster, and the collapsing fish stocks in Maine.

Kipling, Rudyard. Captains Courageous [videorecording], 1934. With Spencer Tracy, in a movie with great fishing schooner footage, based on the book.

Sea Change. Lewiston, ME: Maine Public Broadcasting, 1995. Examines fisheries, sustainable fishing, and aquaculture in Maine. 58 minutes.

Co-Management: The New England Town Meeting Goes to Sea. Camden, ME: Compass Light Productions, 1998. Explores whether to shift more federal fisheries management decisions to the state level and more state fisheries management decisions to the local level. Produced by Island Institute and Mainewatch. 20 minutes.

The Gulf of Maine: A Production of Maine Public Television.  Lewiston, ME: Maine Public Television, 1995. Explores fisheries, including groundfish and lobsters, and science. 57 minutes.

ORIGINAL SOURCE MATERIAL
Life of the Maine Lobsterman Project.  (MF 037)  Nineteen recorded interviews with lobstermen, including topics such as equipment, boats, history, clamming, trawling, and shad fishing. Descriptions available on Maine InfoNet. Tapes available at Maine Folklife Center, University of Maine, Orono. www.umaine.edu/folklife/

Penobscot Bay Fisheries and Industries Project (MF 047).  Thirteen interviews by David Taylor, conducted in 1973-74, covering fishing and related industries on Penobscot Bay and Penobscot River. Includes salmon, smelt, lobsters, captaining a lobster smack, eels, ship and boat building, and Friendship sloops. Series includes taped interviews, brief indexes, and transcripts. Descriptions available on Maine InfoNet. Tapes and photographs available at Maine Folklife Center, University of Maine, Orono. www.umaine.edu/folklife/

WEBSITES
Brazer, Eric. Does the Atlantic Cod, Gadus morhua, Have a Future in the Gulf of Maine? Providence, RI: Brown University B.A. thesis, 2003. Nice summary of biology, history, and legislation. http://envstudies.brown.edu/thesis/2003/eric%5Fbrazer/.

Crowley, Richard M. The State of Fisheries in Maine 2004. Colby College, Waterville, ME, 2005. Environmental Assessment. Overview of current conditions and historical contexts of Maine’s fisheries, including lobstering. http://www.colby.edu/environ/courses/ES493/stateofmaine2004/papers/SoM04_fisheries_paper.htm

Downeast Institute for Applied Marine Research & Education, Great Wass Island. Current information on marine resources and abstracts of research articles. Focuses on shellfish research, hatcheries, rebuilding depleted species. www.downeastinstitute.org.

Downeast Salmon Federation. Current news, research, hatcheries. www.mainesalmonrivers.org

Goode, G. Brown. The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States. Washington: Govt. Printing Office, 1884-87. This seven-volume set baseline for fisheries studies, just after the U.S. Fish Commission was founded.
Northeast Fisheries Science Center http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/nefsc/publications/classics/goode1884/goode1884.htm
Mystic Seaport Museum
http://www.mysticseaport.org/library/initiative/ImPage.cfm?BibID=211655&ChapterId=1

Lobster Conservancy, an excellent educational resource on lobsters: http://www.lobsters.org.

Maine Department of Marine Fisheries. Statistics and state regulations on coastal fisheries. There is an education element under “Aquarium.” www.state.me.us/dmr.

Maine Sea Grant Program. Research papers and educational programs. http://www.seagrant.umaine.edu/index.htm

New England Fishery Management Council, with current regulations, information on species, and links. www.nefmc.org.

Portland Fish Exchange: http://www.portlandfishexchange.com. Good example of a fish market and auction.

United States, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Marine Fisheries Service: www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov.