From collection National Fisherman Collection
LB2012.15.5153
Lobsterman in peapod or double-ender tossing trap into water. Lobsterman is Orren Ames in his Merrill Young built peapod now owned by the Penobscot Marine Museum. Image clearly shows the standup oarlocks and the pot hauler typically used in hand lobstering out of Matinicus double enders. "Lobsterman tending trap near Criehaven, Maine" [ref. NF/YB 1976, p. 51]
