My View of Life on the Dock
Tina and her crew make these prints from real fish presses. She is stuffing a few and will be making a herring mobile for her grandchild. Here on is displayed in an old lobster trap. A proper setting to display fish art!
Tina Greel Fish Prints, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Here is a herring boat Transvac. It is used to suck the herring out of the holds of the huge boats. A vacuum is created between the fish and salt water and they get sucked out of the boat and onto the dock. Thse transvac units are sometimes mounted on trailers and transported up and down the coast as the herring migrate up and down. Some are mounted on the boats themselves. Bottom line is that this fishing industry innovation has saved a ridiculous amount of work when fishermen used to have to bale the fish out using dip nets and winches and a whole lot of back work.
Herring Boat Transvac- Giant Fish Vacuum, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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When there are herring fishing closures it’s time to break out the frozen product.
Herring Flats, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Herring Up Close And Personal, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Salting Vats Of Herring, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Here’s Myron and Eddie at Cape Seafoods loading totes of bait onto pallets using the forktruck.
This is how they sometimes fill the herring totes at Cape Sea Foods on the State Fish Pier. They line them up in a long row and use a rotator on the forks of the fork truck to tip the 1500lb vats of herring on it’s side.
The herring then spills out of the vat and as each tote gets filled the fork truck operator continues in reverse filling the next empty ones in the row until they are all filled.
Then they stack empty totes on top of the ones they just filled with herring until they get four totes high all they way down the line. Once they have all the totes filled and stacked four high they slide the forks of the fork truck under the stacks and lift them onto pallets where they will hold 12 totes per pallet (3 stacks of 4) and shrink wrap them so they won’t slide off during transportation.
Filling Herring Totes, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Dead Rotten Herring, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Dead Rotten Herring, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Dead Rotten Herring, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Herring Hopper/Conveyor at The State Fish Pier, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Two men can handle hundreds of thousands of pounds of fish using this seafood industry innovation.
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Challenger Sits High Without A Load On, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
When the boat is loaded with herring those numbers on the stern won’t be visible. She’ll be sitting right down in the water.
Good Morning Gloucester 