From collection National Fisherman Collection
large orange trawl net coming out of the water
A color image of a large orange trawl net coming out of the water. "shrimp" "shrimp test on GUS D" "new net" "Chris Toole" [ref. NF 3/1977 page 16-B] Included with the slides are several papers; a poem, "The Fishermen's Hymn", by Alexander Wislon, a list of shrimp data betwen the years 1963-1972 in several Maine ports, a sea surface temperture chart 1905-1975, a chart of Boothbay harbor mean sea temp and shrimp catch, and a table of "maine shrimp fisheries" inluding years, places, peak months, duration and total catch in metric tons. A post-it reads "return slides to: Pacific Trawl Co. PO Box 6353 Eureka, CA 9551, tel: 707-444-0431"
