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Mattdotvuvanuatu
2025-06-14

Saraika Strikes Again with a 2,100-Fish Catch Worth 700,000 Vatu

One lucky morning catch brought in over 2,100 Saraika, earning 700,000 Vatu for fishers from Mele and surrounding communities—highlighting the need for effective inshore fisheries management to sustain this vital resource. | |

mattdotvu.blog/2025/06/14/sara

A d d i e B e a laddiebeal@pixelfed.social
2025-06-02
Thurston’s Wharf. One of Maine’s many historical working waterfront locations still used by lobstermen today. The wharf buys lobsters from many of the boats that fish out of the harbor and provides bait, fuel, and storage space for lobster traps and other gear.

{🎞️: Silberra color 160}
{📷: Canon eos 10s}

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A film photo of a wharf used by lobstermen in Maine. In the foreground and left side of the frame you can see the wharf structure which is comprised of piling holding up a wooden platform upon which there are buildings and open spaces used by fishermen to store traps. Further in the background there is a float with a ramp to it with a boat tied up. Beyond that there is a second wharf, and finally the mountains of Acadia National Park are visible. The water is glossy calm and the film’s blue hues are very slightly towards turquoise.
A d d i e B e a laddiebeal@pixelfed.social
2025-05-28
Bass Harbor reflected in the wharf window. I spent the first three years of my lobster-fishing career on the white-hulled boat on the closest mooring.

I’m making #WorkingWaterfrontWednesday a thing lol.

{🎞️: Silberra color 160}
{📷: Canon eos 10s}

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A film photo of a window on a wooden-shingled building on a wharf. The reflection in the window is the primary subject of the photo. A harbor scene is reflected with three or four boats on moorings visible and an old sardine cannery building in the background.
A d d i e B e a laddiebeal@pixelfed.social
2025-05-20
The coast of Maine. To me, home is not a building, or one specific place; it is the smell of the ocean drifting through a coastal forest of spruce and pine and the sound of the waves crashing on the rugged granite shoreline.

{🎞️: Kodak Portra 160}
{📷: Canon eos 10s}

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A film photograph of a rugged granite section of the Maine coastline. Branches of a spruce tree are just visible on the right side of the frame. The rocks are mostly silhouetted, though a little detail is visible. The ocean is mostly calm and reflecting a beautiful orangey sunset. The sun is setting behind islands on the horizon.
A d d i e B e a laddiebeal@pixelfed.social
2025-04-26
I’m back on the internet after being away from home for a week and taking a break from it.

I took this photo from one of the handful of lobstermen’s workshops at the commercial wharf that buys lobsters from the boat I work on. These shops are predominantly used for sanding and re-painting lobster buoys each year and storing gear and spare boat parts.

{🎞️: Kodak Portra 160}
{📷: Canon eos 10s}

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A 35mm film photo taken through a closed window. The window muntins are out of focus in the foreground and the subject of the photo, a lobster boat tied up at a float, is in focus in the background.
A d d i e B e a laddiebeal@pixelfed.social
2025-04-11
Lobster pound, Swans Island Maine.
While “lobster pound” is colloquially used along the coast of Maine to refer to a casual seafood restaurant—often located by the ocean—where you can eat lobster. In the case of these photographs, the term can also mean a built enclosure in a cove or harbor to hold a large amount of lobster.
{🎞️: Kodak Portra 160}
{📷: Canon eos 10s}

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