Milbridge blueberries
The beautiful village of Milbridge is part of the Downeast Fisheries Trail.
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Digging for clams at Hadley Point, Mount Desert Island, Maine, a site on the Downeast Fisheries Trail.
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A winter day at Naskeag Point, Brooklin, Maine, a site on the Downeast Fisheries Trail.
View MorePatrick Shepard
Patrick Shepard is a Fisheries and Seafood Associate with Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries in Stonington, Maine, a site on the Downeast Fisheries Trail. An oral history with Shepard was published in Volume VI of The Catch.
View MoreSpinnaker
A dead humpback whale identified by researchers as Spinnaker floats off Great Head on Mount Desert Island on Thursday, June 11, 2015.
View MoreAncient oyster
A thousand-year-old oyster shell from a Native American shell midden in Damariscotta, Maine.
View MoreCatching Up with Robin Alden
Robin Alden, who stepped down as director of Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries in Stonington, Maine, in 2017. Alden was interviewed by Kathleen Ellis for Volume VI of The Catch.
View MoreSeals
Harbor and gray seals in Cobscook Bay, Maine.
View MoreFishing a herring weir at low tide
Fishing a herring weir at low tide, near Eastport, Maine From a photograph by T. W. Smillie. part of the atlas of illustrations accompanying Section V - History and Methods of the Fisheries - contains 255 plates that detail methods of the...
View MoreGlooskap looking at the whale smoking his pipe
This illustration appears in the book Algonquin Legends of New England, or Myths and Folklore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot Tribes, by Charles G. Leland (1884). Glooskap (Gluskap, Gluskabe) is a legendary figure in Wabanaki...
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The Catch is a place-based, online literary journal published for five years, in association with the Downeast Fisheries Trail, a maritime heritage education and tourism effort in eastern Maine.
The Catch is no longer accepting new submissions. Please enjoy the archives .
Current Volume: Volume 6
(2018)
Editor's Note
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