Fish Wives and Herring Girls

  Fish Wives and Herring Girls Fishing was very much a family affair in the Seaboard Villages with all of the grown up family members participating in some way. The women of the Seaboard Villages didn’t work at sea but sometimes life back on the shore was just as...

Fishing History

Although the main occupation of the Seaboard was herring and white fishing, by the mid-1900’s salmon fishing came close behind. Read more about fishing in the Seaboard Villages in Chapters 3-7 of Down to the Sea here. Women carrying menfolk to stop their feet...