My View of Life on the Dock
It’s been nasty cold the last couple of days. Not that I have to tell any of you reading this if you’re from Gloucester. We’ve all been breaking out the heavy winter gear early and there has been ice on the floor in the morning which is not a good sign for the lobsters as when the water temperature drops to a certain level, they really slow down.
Myron Lepine Bundles Up For The Cold Weather, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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David Burton shoots Cintia Dicker for Glamour UK on one of Cape Seafoods Mid-Water Trawlers Video
Here is another pic from The Glamour UK photoshoot from the past summer which ended up in the pages of the recent edition of the magazine.
British Glamour Photoshoot, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Minimal Editing- Minimal Commentary- Just A Slice Of Life On Gloucester Harbor
Here The Herring Mid Water Trawler The Voyager Uses It’s Hydraulic Winches To Pull Itself Into Position At The Pier
And here is the scene from that day July 9, 2008-
Here’s Myron and Eddie at Cape Seafoods loading totes of bait onto pallets using the forktruck.
Myron Lepine displays his award winning pickles and relishes.
Myron Lepine takes big time pride in his pickling and it shows. Here are some of his award winning pickles and relishes that have won top honors at The Topsfield Fair.
Myron Lepine’s Award Winning Pickles and Relishes, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
State Fish Pier, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
This Building on The State Fish Pier houses the herring plant and freezers for Cape Seafoods. This enormous building which you can barely see the end of in the picture because it is so big employs I think less than 20 full time employees. There have been incredible innovations in automation that move fish from boat to plant to freezer using very little labor.
Between Transvac herring pumps, herring conveyors and innovations in automation in the plant it all operates efficiently and flawlessly with a fraction of the dock workers that used to work on this site 20-30 years ago. The State Fish pier used to house many different seafood companies before the highly efficient Gloucester Seafood Display Auction and Cape Seafoods came to town.
When this new building was built it was shopped as a place to relocate fish businesses around the harbor to. Without financially viable alternative uses that would be allowed with the current zoning there was no incentive for waterfront business owners to relocate to this building and pay huge rent when their own property would be sold for pennies on the dollar because of the restrictive marine industrial zoning. Cape Seafoods stepped up and currently rents out the entire building.
Herring Boats at the State Fish Pier, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Good Morning Gloucester 