Maine: The Pine Tree State from Prehistory to the Present (Judd, Churchill, and Eastman)
Chapter 13: Maine's Maritime Trades in the Period of Ascendancy
Drs. Lawrence C. Allin and Wayne M. O'Leary open up by writing about Maine's deep-sea fisheries, or the state's fisheries beyond thirty miles from shore that had limited ownership in communities like Bath, Portland, and Waldoboro.
Closer to shore, hundreds of smaller operators focusing on fisheries such as salted-cod fish. According to Allin and O'Leary, Maine seafood's markets were primarily the immigrant working classes of northeastern cities and slave populations in the south and West Indies. And the industry's "bounty law" greatly benefited small-vessel owners and "safeguarded the fishing industry from the worst effects of nineteenth-century monopoly capitalism."
And finally, Allin and O'Leary close the chapter by analyzing the Maine's shipbuilding industry, a marriage between the forest and the sea.
