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Beautiful Industry- Herring Up Close And Personal
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Gloucester At Dawn- Deck Of The Diane Marie Herring Boat 4:45AM 8/14/09
No one around while the city sleeps.
Gloucester At Dawn- Deck Of The Diane Marie Herring Boat 4:45AM 8/14/09, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Gloucester City Hall Tower Clock Mechanism
City Hall Tower Clock Mechanism, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
In the picture below can you see the four different splines that come off of the clock mechanism? Those shafts go out to the four sides of the City Hall Clock to turn the hands. Pretty cool at how simple it all is.
Video from inside this room way up high above the City at 6PM
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Working On The Rigging- Schooner Work
They were doing some big time work up in the rigging. This cat was way up there disconnecting some stays that connected the two masts. Barefoot. My knees would be knocking so hard if I got 10 feet off the ground, never-mind way up at the top of the mast like this. Schooner Festival is coming this weekend- don’t forget! If you haven’t been down to see it yet we have some insider tips coming for you later from Daisy Nell, Chairperson of the Gloucester Schooner Festival 09
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Check back for videos coming later.
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Anatomy Of A Lobster Buoy, Break Away Whale Safe Swivel
This is a whale safe break away swivel used on lobster buoys. The swivel has a weak part (highlighted by the blue arrow in the picture below) designed to break away with 600 pounds of pressure.
In the unfortunate instance that a whale might get caught in a lobster pot line, it will break the swivel and swim free. This is another in many responsible steps the lobster industry has adopted (along with escape vents for small lobsters on the traps and biodegradable hog rings which break down and let the vents fall out in the case of lost gear).
The offshore fishery and Pacific coast use 1100 pound break away swivels but our inshore lobstermen use 600 pound ones.
Look for a video with Johnny “Doc” Herrick at 7AM in which we break down the parts of a lobster buoy and their costs.
Anatomy Of A Lobster Buoy, Break Away Swivel, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Beautiful Industry- Herring Seiner Sunlight Herring Pump
The Sunlight and The Starlight are in town. Time to get some pictures.
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Lady Marie Heads Out Lobstering
Sam heads out. By himself. To haul his traps and make a days pay. No one barking at him. No one telling him where to go or what to do. Just him and his boat. Hauling traps, Baiting Traps, Setting Traps. Independent.
Ladie Marie Heads Out Lobstering, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Vats Of Herring At The State Fish Pier
Last week herring was scarce with some bait companies completely sold out. Yesterday the Cape Seafoods boats came in loaded. Feast or famine. Yesterday was feast. It was all asses and elbows as the Cape Seafood Crew earned their pay offloading a whole buttload of fish.
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Beautiful Industry- Diane Marie
What’s gonna pull that net aboard the boat? You got that right baby! -The winch.
Responsible for most of the heavy lifting aboard fishing boats for many many years.
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Beautiful Industry – Herring
The herring have been scarce so the big boats have been going all the way to George’s Bank to try to find them with no luck in the past two weeks. That means they have been burning a ton of fuel as the herring boats are gigantic vessels.
We’ve been filling in by using pogies for lobster bait which are not nearly as much fun to handle. They break down much faster and they produce this incredibly slick oil which gets all over the floor and everywhere making it a PITA to use. Beggars can’t be choosers though so whatever it takes to get our lobstermen out fishing is what we will try to provide.
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Let Er Go Seine Boat
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The Helm of The Let Er Go Seine Boat
The Helm of The Let Er Go
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Let Er Go Seine Boat 8/18/09 4:50AM
Here is inside the Let Er Go. The seine boat that gets dropped off the stern of the herring seiner.
Let Er Go Seine Boat 8/18/09 4:50AM, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Gloucester At Dawn- Boat Heads Out In The Stillness Of Morning
Beautiful Industry- Boat Heads Out In The Stillness Of Morning, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Beautiful Industry- Diane Marie and The North Channel 8/14/09 4:50AM
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Tuna Carcass- Sushi Anyone?
Slap on a little wasabi and give me a bottle of soy and we’re good to go!
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Triggerfish at Captain Joe and Son’s Video
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Triggerfish At Captain Joe’s
Day before yesterday Aaron on The Lady Margaret brought in this Triggerfish. In my 33 years down the dock and after handling a bajillion pounds of fish at our dock I’ve only seen a couple of these. The wikipedia page on Triggerfish is pretty interesting. It says they are normally found in warm coastal waters of the Atlantic, Mediterranean and the Indo-Pacific. This one must have followed it’s way up the jet Gulf stream.
Click this text for the Triggerfish Wikipedia page
Video at 8AM Thursday where you can see just what happens to this particular fish.
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Peter Mondello’s Lobster Gauge
Notie that Peter has a float attached to his lobster gauge? I wonder how many get lost overboard without the float.
Lobster Gauge, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
This is how you measure a lobster from the Massachusetts Division of marine fisheries-
How to Measure a Lobster
Carapace length measured from rear of eye socket parallel to the center line of the bodyshell to the rear of the bodyshell. All lobsters measuring less than the minimum legal carapace length must be returned to the waters from which taken. All lobsters must be measured immediately.
Carapace length measured from rear of eye socket parallel to the center line of the bodyshell to the rear of the bodyshell. All lobsters measuring less than the minimum legal carapace length must be returned to the waters from which taken. All lobsters must be measured immediately.
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