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Interviewee Sort descending | Collection | Description | Interviewer | Date of Interview | Location of Interview | Affiliation |
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Michael Rioux | Ellsworth High School - Maine |
Michael Rioux is retired scallop and urchin diver and lobsterman. He lives in Surry, Maine, and worked out of Blue Hill Bay and Stonington, Maine. Rioux started in the fishing industry by driving a dive boat for other divers before getting into scallop and urchin markets, and then lobstering. He fished in various areas, ranging from Milbridge to Vinalhaven, North Haven, Isle Au Haute, and Swan’s Island. |
Julie Whitcomb, Tiara Woods, Erik Korver | Surry, ME | NOAA/NMFS Local Fisheries Knowledge Pilot Project | |
Mike Flanagan | Voices of the Maine Fishermen’s Forum 2019 |
Mike Flanagan is a retired Merchant Marine captain with forty years of experience from Thomaston, ME. He works to support young Mainers in pursuing a similar career path and building the skills necessary to work out at sea. Flanagan has been involved with the Maine Ocean School and other organizations to promote maritime education and training for high school graduates. Scope and Content Note |
Natalie Springuel, Giulia Cardoso | Rockland, ME | Maine Sea Grant, The First Coast, College of the Atlantic, The Island Institute, Maine Fishermen’s Forum | |
Morna Briggs |
On October 26, 2023, Asy Xaytouthor and Jessica Bonilla interviewed Morna Briggs in Corea, Maine. Morna Briggs, born in Bar Harbor and a long-time resident of Corea, is 100 years old at the time of the interview. She worked for decades in the local fishing and canning industries and played a central role in her family’s fishing activities, particularly in lobstering, clamming, and herring weir operations. She also raised children and cared for aging parents and relatives, all while actively participating in her coastal community. |
Asy Xaytouthor, Jessica Bonilla | Corea, ME | University of Maine, College of the Atlantic | ||
Myrtress Harrington | The Last Sardine Cannery - Prospect Harbor, Maine |
Myrtress Harrington was eighteen when she started canning sardines at Stinson Seafood in Prospect Harbor, Maine. |
Keith Ludden | Steuben, ME | Oral History & Folklife Research, Inc. | |
N. Orchard | Fishermen Interviews of the U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries, 1893-1895 |
Interview with fisherman N. Orchard of Boothbay, Maine, by Richard Rathbun of the U.S. Fish Commission. Interview contains descriptions of the mackerel fishery. |
Richard Rathbun | Boothbay, ME | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Archives II , New England Regional National Archives | |
Nancy Harrington | Women in the New England Fisheries |
Nancy Harrington has deep roots in the fishing and processing industry. Starting as a young worker in a sardine factory, she became a steadfast figure in the industry, working as a fish packer. Nancy’s husband is a lobster fisherman and house painter. Nancy worked at the Stinson Cannery in Prospect Harbor, Maine, for forty-four years. |
Patricia Pinto da Silva | Milbridge, ME | NOAA Fisheries | |
Pam Smith | Oral Histories from the New England Fisheries |
Pam Smith is a school teacher from Jonesport, Maine, with a rich family history tracing back to Ireland. She is the second of four siblings, with her older brother living on Beal's Island, her younger brother having lived in California and now shipping out, and her sister residing in Florida. Her husband is a fisherman, involved in various fisheries including quahogging, lobstering, scallop diving, and tuna fishing. He originally bought his boat in 1987 for gill netting, but lost his ground fish permit the same year. Despite this setback, he has managed to make a living from fishing. |
Lisa Colburn | Jonesport, ME | NOAA Fisheries | |
Parker Gassett | Voices of the Maine Fishermen’s Forum 2019 |
Parker Gassett, was a University of Maine graduate student in marine policy living in Camden, ME at the time of this interview. Scope and Content Note |
Natalie Springuel, Eliza Oldach | Rockland, ME | University of California, Davis, Maine Sea Grant, The First Coast, College of the Atlantic, The Island Institute, Maine Fishermen’s Forum | |
Parker Poole | Young Fishermen in the Northeast United States |
Parker Poole, 31 years old at the time of the interview, runs a marine salvage and towing business and fishes commercially on the side in Portland, ME. Despite lobstering in high school, he did not log enough hours to meet the qualification criteria to receive a Maine lobster license, so he made the decision not to pursue his dream of becoming a full-time fisherman. |
Sarah Schumann | Rockport, ME | NOAA | |
Patrick Shepard | Voices of the Maine Fishermen's Forum 2018 |
Patrick Shepard works for the Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries and was born in Stonington, ME. He talks about his experiences growing up in a fishing family and lobstering with his brother from a very young age. He also speaks about the changes he sees in his hometown and what the future of fishing in Maine might hold, particularly in finding ways to make more money from a smaller amount of high quality product. |
Galen Koch, Matt Frassica, Kaitlyn Clark | Rockland, ME | Maine Fishermen’s Forum, Maine Sea Grant, The First Coast, College of the Atlantic, The Island Institute |