item: #1 of 5 id: 15035 author: Rich, Walter H. (Walter Herbert) title: Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine date: None words: 44571 flesch: 83 summary: A comparatively little known and apparently as yet unnamed ridge lies E. by S. 15 miles from the buoy on Cashes Ledge, which is reported to be good fishing ground, especially for cod and cusk. At various points about the edges of Jeffreys Ledge are small detached ridges, which in their season are good fishing grounds. keywords: bank; cape; cod ground; cusk; depths; fall; fathoms; fishing ground; good; ground; haddock ground; hake; hand; island; island ground; june; lobster ground; long; miles; miles s.; mud; pollock; ridge; rocky; shoal; spring; summer; water; western; winter; year cache: 15035.txt plain text: 15035.txt item: #2 of 5 id: 17171 author: Various title: New England Salmon Hatcheries and Salmon Fisheries in the Late 19th Century date: None words: 17308 flesch: 66 summary: There still survived salmon fisheries in the following rivers, namely, the Penobscot, the Kennebec, the Denny's, the East Machias, the Saint Croix, and the Aroostook, a tributary of the Saint John. The dealers in our city have retailed this season 50 tons Penobscot salmon, and about 3 tons Saint John salmon; it all sells as Penobscot salmon. keywords: brook; commission; eggs; feet; fish; fisheries; food; inclosure; maine; miles; nets; new; penobscot; pounds; river; salmon; season; states; time; water; years cache: 17171.txt plain text: 17171.txt item: #3 of 5 id: 26560 author: Tolman, Albert Walter title: Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good date: None words: 72348 flesch: 92 summary: At last Percy thought it possible that their voices might be heard against the wind. II A FRESH START Two mornings later Percy Whittington was awakened in his room at the Thorndike in Rockland by a bell-boy hammering on his door. keywords: barracouta; black; boat; boys; budge; buoy; cabin; camp; captain; close; cove; door; dory; end; eyes; face; feet; filippo; fish; going; good; half; hand; head; island; jabe; jim; lane; lay; look; man; men; miles; morning; percy; point; right; round; sea; set; sloop; spurling; tarpaulin; thing; throppy; time; want; water; way; whittington; work cache: 26560.txt plain text: 26560.txt item: #4 of 5 id: 26632 author: Wharton, James title: The Bounty of the Chesapeake: Fishing in Colonial Virginia date: None words: 30458 flesch: 73 summary: Of all which myself has seen great quantity taken, especially the last summer at Smith's Island at one haul a frigate's lading of sturgeon, bass, and other great fish in Captain Argall's seine, and even at the very place which is not above fifteen miles from Point Comfort. It was only a question of time before the Virginia colonists would, though surrounded all the while by their own huge marine resources, subsist on salt fish from the North. keywords: america; bay; chesapeake; colony; company; country; day; england; english; fish; fisheries; fishery; fishing; george; good; herring; indians; john; kind; london; nets; new; oysters; plenty; river; salt; salt fish; sea; seine; shad; shore; smith; sturgeon; time; use; virginia; washington; water; year cache: 26632.txt plain text: 26632.txt item: #5 of 5 id: 43856 author: Ely, Wilmer M. (Wilmer Mateo) title: The Boy Chums Cruising in Florida Waters or, The Perils and Dangers of the Fishing Fleet date: None words: 67541 flesch: 90 summary: Wall, observed Captain Westfield, when we are at sea I'm generally the head man, but hyar on shore an' at this fishing business, I reckon Charley thar does the leading. You can not prove there isn't, laughed Charley. keywords: bill; boat; captain; charley; chris; chum; companions; daniels; day; dock; dollars; end; engine; fish; fishermen; fishing; good; guess; hunter; island; lad; launch; man; money; nets; party; right; roberts; run; sailor; schooner; thing; time; walter; way; westfield; white; work cache: 43856.txt plain text: 43856.txt