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   xoxoxoBruce  Saturday Jun 24 12:03 AM

June 24th, 2017: North American Food

Before people came over the Atlantic, what did the people who came over the Pacific eat?
In New England they ate a lot of seafood as well as meat.

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"... Indians depended on the living bounty of the Gulf of Maine...they left staggering shellheaps behind; a single heap of shucked oyster shells in Damariscotta covered an area of more than sixty acres to a depth of nearly thirty feet." (p. 63)

"Lobsters were everywhere. On their way to the Kennebec, Raleigh Gilbert's men [early 1600s] caught fifty lobsters "of great bignesse" by simply rowing a boat over shallow water and gaffing the unsuspecting lobsters with a boat hook..." (p. 81)

"The cod bit quickly in those days and a good fisherman would catch 350 to 400 in a day... they weighed over one hundred pounds apiece..." (p. 85)

"In colonial days, a small boy could bring home enough [lobsters] to feed several families by simply wading along the shore at low tide and gaffing the huge five- and ten-pound beasts hiding among the rocks... One group of indentured servants in Massachusetts became so upset with this diet that they took their owners to court winning a judgment that they would not be served lobster more than three times a week. Lobsters were sometimes taken in great numbers and strewn on the fields as fertilizer..." (p. 170)

"The catch in those days would astound today's lobsterman. Portland lobstermen in 1855 averaged seven four- to six-pound lobsters in every pot, every day throughout the four-month season. (By comparison, today's lobstermen often find only one legal-sized lobster per trap, and it typically weighs between a pound and a pound and a half). (p. 177)

"At the height of summer, hotel owners would pay as much as five cents for a good, two-pound dinner table lobster... Smaller lobsters were no longer discarded, as the canneries would buy them for $1 per hundredweight..." (p. 186)

"Halibut, a great flatfish that could weigh nine hundred pounds and measure nine feet in length, had once been so numerous they were "looked upon as a nuisance" by cod-seeking fishermen.. On at least one occasion, a vessel using the old hook-over-the-side method caught more than 250 in three hours..." (p. 203)


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Diaphone Jim  Saturday Jun 24 11:48 AM

I expected a mention of Tai-Wiki-Widbee.



xoxoxoBruce  Sunday Jun 25 01:03 AM

The quotes are from the book, the map from elsewhere.



SPUCK  Wednesday Jun 28 01:38 AM

I don't see listed the:

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