Princess Laura Slime Eel Operation

You didn’t think that I was going to leave you without a little slime eel send-off did you?

Princess Laura Slime Eel Operation Calling It Quits

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Watch The Boys Tear Down The Princess Laura Slime Eel Packing Operation

Princess Laura Slime Eel Operation To Cease

The packing table has been pulled out and dismantled, and this dumping bin is the next to go.  A crew member told me yesterday that they will be ceasing operations on the state fish pier because there just wasn’t enough money in it.

Princess Laura Slime Eel Operation To Cease, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Here was the scene at this location on August 21, 2008-

Princess Laura Slime Eel Operation To Cease

Here you see the boys dismantling the slime eel packing table that was operating on the state fish pier.  When I asked why they were shutting it down they told me it just wasn’t paying.  It wasn’t for a lack of trying.  A huge amount of effort was put forth to try to make a go of it.

At least I got to document it while it was operating.  I know, I know, you all will be supremely disappointed that there will be no more slime eel pictures on these pages.

Building Slime Eel Traps

Here the boys from The Princess Laura build more slime eel traps.

Building Slime Eel Traps, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Slime Eel Packing Table

Here the boys get rid of the waste slime.

Slime Eel Packing Table, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Slime Eel Packing

Note how the slime gets separated from the slime eels and then the gets pushed down the table through those little square openings into the vats.

You couldn’t pay me enough.

Slime Eel Packing, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Vats and Vats and Vats and Vats and Vats Of Slime Eels

Considering each one of these vats holds 1800 pounds of wet product thats a whole lot of nastiness!

This Homie Has Seen Better Days

It’s bad enough to get squished by a truck but then you gotta lay around dead surrounded by a bunch of slime eels? Damn son, that’s gotta suck.

Slime Eel Statistics Taking By The DMF

They are taking measurements to establish a baseline for future growth or average lengths of the catch from year to year.

Slime Eel Statistics Taking By The DMF, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

 

Division of Marine Fisheries Takes Slime Eel Statistics

The New Face Of The Gloucester Waterfront

On break from packing Slime eels.

Slime Eel Packers Getting Ready to Work

Slime Eel Packing Table

This is how slime eels get packed.

Slime Eel Packing Table, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Slime Eel Traps

The slime eels enter the inverted cones and then can’t escape.

Slime Eel Traps, originally uploaded by captjoe06.