

My View of Life on the Dock
You didn’t think that I was going to leave you without a little slime eel send-off did you?
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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-

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.
Princess Laura Slime Eel Operation To Cease, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Here the boys from The Princess Laura build more slime eel traps.
Building Slime Eel Traps, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Here the boys get rid of the waste slime.
Slime Eel Packing Table, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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.
Considering each one of these vats holds 1800 pounds of wet product thats a whole lot of nastiness!
Vats and Vats and Vats and Vats and Vats Of Slime Eels, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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.
This Seagull Has Seen Better Days, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Slime Eels, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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.
On break from packing Slime eels.
The New face Of The Gloucester Waterfront, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Slime Eels, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Slime Eel Packers Getting Ready to Work, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
The slime eels enter the inverted cones and then can’t escape.
Slime Eel Traps, originally uploaded by captjoe06.