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The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine Maine Sea Grant Publications Maine Sea Grant 2012 Downeast Fisheries Trail: Celebrating the Fisheries Heritage of Downeast Maine, Then and Now Downeast Fisheries Trail Roosevelt-Campobello International Park Natalie Springuel University of Maine, [email protected] Catherine Schmitt University of Maine, [email protected] J. Canniff Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/seagrant_pub Part of the American Studies Commons, and the United States History Commons Repository Citation Downeast Fisheries Trail; Roosevelt-Campobello International Park; Springuel, Natalie; Schmitt, Catherine; and Canniff, J., "Downeast Fisheries Trail: Celebrating the Fisheries Heritage of Downeast Maine, Then and Now" (2012). Maine Sea Grant Publications. 76. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/seagrant_pub/76 This Map is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. 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Blue Hill East Blue Hill 186 Great Wass Machias Seal Island 9 Island 3 Island Celebrating fisheries heritage then and now. Frenchman Bay 186 176 www.DowneastFisheriesTrail.org 102 Town Hill 13 Petit Manan Prospect Harbor 25 176 11 IslesboroIslesboro From Penobscot Bay to Cobscook Bay, the Harborside 15 198 23 Bar Harbor 12 Downeast Fisheries Trail connects historic and 17 Winter 1 233 Harbor active fisheries sites that illustrate the region’s Somesville 24 Long maritime heritage. Marine resources sustain the IslandIsland culture and economy of Downeast Maine. The Downeast Fisheries Trail builds on these local resources to 172 Acadia National Park strengthen community life and the experience of visitors. 102 National Park 3 Acadia 198 Otter Creek National Park 175 4 102 14 4 Penobscot Bay 1 Penobscot Marine Museum (3A) 23 Henry Cove (4D) Little Deer Isle Blue Hill Bay Northeast 2 Penobscot Narrows Bridge Observatory & 24 Frazer Point (4D) Brooklin Harbor 15 Seal Harbor Fort Knox (3B) 25 Prospect Harbor (4D) 3 Bucksport Waterfront (3B) Southwest 26 Milbridge Historical Museum (3D) HarborHarbor 4 Craig Brook National Fish Hatchery (3B) 27 15 Deer Isle 16 0 2.5 5 10 15 20 Milbridge Town Marina (3D) 5 Deer Isle-Stonington Historical Society (4B) 28 7 Cranberry Isles Miles Cable Pool Park (3D) 5 6 Penobscot East Resource Center (5B) 29 Wild Salmon Resource Center (3E) 7 Naskeag Point (4B) 30 Downeast Institute for Applied Marine 8 Green Lake National Fish Hatchery (3C) Research and Education (4E) North Haven 31 Maine Coast Sardine History Museum (3E) 9 Mount Desert Oceanarium (4C) Stonington 32 Jonesport Historical Society (3E) 6 10 Bar Harbor Town Park at Hadley Point (4C) 33 Beals Heritage Center (3E) Swan’s Island 11 Bar Harbor Town Pier (4C) 34 Bad Little Falls Park (3E) 1 Downeast Fisheries Trail site 12 Abbe Museum (4C) 35 East Machias Aquatic Research Center (3F) Boat launch 13 Frenchman Bay Overlook (4C) 36 Morong Cove (2F) Long Lighthouse 14 Otter Cove (4C) IslandIsland 37 McCurdy’s Smokehouse (2G) Protected lands (Not all protected 15 Great Harbor Maritime Museum (4C) 38 Vinalhaven n e Quoddy Head State Park (2G) a i lands are open to the public) 16 M Islesford Historical Museum (4C) 39 Cobscook Bay State Park (2F) o f Ferry route f 17 Somesville Mill Pond (4C) 40 Gleason Cove Park (2G) IsleIsle auau HautHaut u l Schoodic National Scenic Byway 5 G 18 Taunton Bay Gateway (3C) 41 5 Bold Coast Scenic Byway Waponahki Museum (2G) 19 Gordon’s Wharf (3C) 42 Blackwoods Scenic Byway Carryingplace Cove (2G) 20 Tidal Falls (3C) 43 Down East Sunrise Trail Shackford Head State Park (2G) 21 Frenchman Bay Scenic Turnout (3C) 44 Cobscook Bay Resource Center (2G) Map prepared by College of the Atlantic 22 Long Cove (3C) 45 Roosevelt Campobello International Park (2G) GIS laboratory A B C D E F G 14 Otter Cove Park Loop Road, Otter Creek 22 Long Cove Route 1, Sullivan As early as 1860 to the mid-twentieth century, both sides of Otter Cove, now in Downeast Maine’s characteristic intertidal and subtidal mud flats support soft- Acadia National Park, were lined with fish houses that supported as many as shell clams and marine worms, two of the state’s most valuable fisheries. Worm Visit www.DowneastFisheriesTrail.org 25 families. Fish houses operated as staging areas for prepping bait, construct- harvesters overturn the mud with a special hoe or rake with a short handle ing traps, repairing nets, hooking lines, or sharing stories, all the outfitting and long tines, and then hand-pick sand worms and bloodworms. Dealers to learn more about any of the sites on the necessary to fish for whatever species was in season. As the one remaining fish count the worms in trays, pack them carefully in newspaper or seaweed inside Downeast Fisheries Trail, explore fisheries house in Otter Cove represents, these were more shacks than houses, often cardboard boxes, and ship them to eager anglers who will use the bait within built out of randomly collected materials, and yet they were vital to fishermen days of harvest. history then and now, view photographs who relied on skill, common sense, and each other for survival in the time 207.667.7131 | www.schoodicbyway.org | YR | 32 Jonesport Historical Society 21 Sawyer Square, Jonesport before mechanization. On the busy and productive working waterfront of Moosabec Reach, the and other resources, find an event, or plan 207.288.3338 | www.nps.gov/acad/index.htm | SL | Jonesport Historical Society preserves artifacts in the historic Sawyer Building of one of Maine’s important fishing ports. It also houses the “Jonesport Heritage your trip to Downeast Maine. 15 Great Harbor Maritime Museum 124 Main Street, Northeast Harbor Center,” an expansive computer database of local history containing a rich Exhibits about lighthouses, shipbuilding, boat models, Main Street, and trans- archive: 8,500 photos; 9,000 pages of newspaper articles, documents and text; portation have been featured at this museum that preserves and celebrates 400 video clips; genealogical information on more than 70,000 individuals; 41 Waponahki Museum 59 Passamaquoddy Road, Perry the maritime heritage of the Mount Desert Island region. The museum has and extensive cemetery data on 4,300 graves. The Sipayik Cultural Committee of the Passamaquoddy Tribe of Native hosted boat parades and model regattas, and encourages the next generation 207-497-2395 | www.peabody.lib.me.us/jonesport-historical-society.php Americans manages this small museum at Pleasant Point.