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A Real-life Fish Story

Interesting things pop up in the Fifth Maine Museum collections weekly. The most recent was a handwritten “yarn” about a fisherman’s close call with a big fish in Casco Bay. Some context about details that appear in the story to follow: In the 1800s and early 1900s, “horse mackerel” was a vernacular term for …

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Category: Curator's Corner Tags: 1860 fishing in Maine, Blue fin tuna, Fishing, Harbor Island, Trefethen

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