Tag Archives: Cape Cod Times
Photo’s: Fishing in Provincetown 40 years ago
Provincetown 1979, Culling the catch–discarding the anemones and crabs and other bottom life that came up in the net-always drew a crowd of gulls. Here the crew of Pat Sea, skippered by Manuel Macara, culls near Race Point. Cape Cod Times photographer Milton Moore captured these Provincetown fishing images 40-plus years ago. 37 photo’s >click to review< 09:15
Historic photos: 1942 fishing trip off Provincetown aboard the Provincetown-based dragger F/V Francis and Marion
These amazing photos from 1942 take you aboard the Provincetown-based drag trawler Francis and Marion, fishing off Cape Cod. The trawls are constantly being repaired; while one net is down all hands turn to mending a second one. “Doors,” which when lowered, slide over the bed of the ocean like sled runners, dragging behind them the purse seine which scoops up miscellaneous fish, rocks, crabs, lobsters, and a great deal of slime. 21 photo’s >click to review< 13:07
