Fishing

1996

July 23, 1996

World Record Blue Shark Caught

Mark Alan Lovewell
Sharks
Fishing
Monster Shark Tournament

A huge 454-pound blue shark was caught during the tenth annual Oak Bluffs Monster Shark Tournament held over the weekend. The shark could be the largest blue ever caught, a world record.

The shark was caught by Pete Bergin of Shrewsbury in his boat Quality Time. Mr. Bergin's boat was one of 65 participating in the Boston Big Game Fishing Club's annual event. Competing boats filled the Oak Bluffs waterfront for most of the weekend. On Friday and Saturday a large number of fish were caught, and even more were released.

May 10, 1996

Call It Quaint If You Must, But Menemsha Remains a Fishing Village

Mark Alan Lovewell
Chilmark History
Fishing
Menemsha harbor
Menemsha fishermen rise with the sun. On a cool, clear morning this week, the lobstermen came down one by one to take their boats to sea.
 
Pat Jenkinson came down to his lobster boat Solitude. Herbert Hancock’s boat Billie H. began with a roar of its diesel engine.
 

1947

January 31, 1947

Dragger Viking, Rebuilt, Launched Once More

Vineyard Gazette
Dragger Viking
Fishing
Boats and boating
The forty-foot dragger, Viking, Capt. John Coutinho of Vineyard Haven, was launched from the ways of the Martha’s Vineyard Shipbuilding Company, at that port, on Tuesday afternoon, and was towed into the harbor and docked, preparatory to her being towed to New Bedford, for her engine installation.
 

1946

September 6, 1946

To Rebuild Dragger Wrecked by Explosion

Vineyard Gazette
Dragger Viking
Fishing
Boats and boating
The forty-foot dragger Viking, which blew up and burned in Menemsha Creek Basin this summer, has been sold by her former owner, M.S. Duarte of Vineyard Haven, to Capt. John Coutinho of the same town. The Viking has been hauled out at the Martha’s Vineyard Shipbuilding Company yards, and will be completely rebuilt. Albert Allen, yard superintendent, and his regular crew, will perform the work. When she is once more in condition, Captain Coutinho will replace his present small fishing boat with the Viking.
 

1942

February 27, 1942

New Tashmoo Canal Impresses Visitors

Vineyard Gazette
Lake Tashmoo
Dredging
Fishing
Striped bass
The first hint of spring weather drew visitors in considerable numbers to the newly constructed Tashmoo Creek at Vineyard Haven, where the firm Turner and Breivogel is making the waterway which will turn the lower half of Lake Tashmoo into an arm of the sea. Although plans of the creek were drawn before the opening was votes, and these plans have been available to anyone, the appearance of the creek, as it begins to take shape, exceeds by far the popular conception of what it was to be.
 

1928

March 9, 1928

Big Herring Catch At Tashmoo Likely

Vineyard Gazette
Lake Tashmoo
Herring Runs
Fishing
Herring
The approach of spring is heralded on the Vineyard, as well as at many other points on the coast, by the running of fish. Fish are to be had at any month in the year if one knows how and where to get them, but no movement of a school or body takes place during the winter in the waters near the shore or the land-locked lakes and ponds.
 

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