Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1893-02-23
Our Bay Fisheries.
Especial to the Lewiston Journal

ELLSWORTH, Me-, FEB. IL. Ihe Dill be-
fore the Legislature relating to our bay
fisheries, which proposes to allow the use
of purse seines and thus abolish all the
existing laws as to seining fish, has
aroused much Indignation among Hancock
and Washington county Gamers, gill-net-
ters and small boat fishermen. 1t is le-
garded as a menace to an industry which
In the past fifteen years has grown to be
of such Importance that the canning bnsi-
ness alone in eastern Maine represents be-
tween two and three million dollars.
The promoters of the proposed scheme
are the Rhode Island porgy men, the Bes-
ton mackerel fishermen and one or two
from the western part of this State, w'o
were also the chief workers for the Lap
ham bill at Washington last winter.
These are the parties who are said to We
engineering change in our laws whi'
would permit them TO destroy the Canni
and netting Industries. The followils
alleged statement of fish warden in t'e
newspapers, is particularly offensive to o r
fishermen. and misrepresentS the matt r.
'The seiners agree with the -ariiue and h r.
ring people that they Will not 90 east Of Wh -
Head and the latter say, that being settled VI
may 90 where you want To- west Of That |
catch and seine all you wish. hut " whethcr III y,
have agreed g. help them pass such law d'
not appear. The fact is there Is nothing ra-t I
The line proposed for the Setncrs to take,
understand there have been mcnhadcu
Of that line since ISIS The argument OF te
lobster Gamers Is this They -ay they cant 10
afford to pay the prices market Holsters lO4, ,-
cheS Will bring, hence they ought to hay, Z t
privilege of taking small ones long a. IT,
viii last and then prevent the taking ~ a.
from sept lst till Nov. 20 or Dec - the -a'af
year SO far as ! can learn there are only -lN
factories which have canned this year, t.
others cannot get Holsters suitable tu can 40 hu
gone into some other branch of canning
the year round and it seems a law pruhitiu :
the taking OF holsters less than lWl, inches wuu
De wise anu JudlClUu- provision
Your correspondent, in interview.
some of the prominent opponents Of t.,a
bill, among Others S. q. Stevens. who ca
ries on, probably, the largest ti,h cannl .
business in the State, Mr. Wyman of NJ
bridge and William Mayo, large wrir
owner Of Cranberry Isles, learn, that 10
agreement or deal of any Kind was mae
by the Gamers and fishermen as to whprr
the law might take effect. anti this is REL
sonabe to believe, since they have no j J.
ri>dlction IN the matter whatever.
The Gamers who appeared before Il
Legislature to protect their rights ha
pened to he only those east Of " nite nes
and nobody west Of that point was the
to he p out thcir cause. Therefore, wht "a
the seiners proposed not u meddle via
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