Years ago they cooked the fish differently. They steamed the fish before they packed them, and they put them on what they call these long flakes. If fact, years ago, they’d bail them out of the boats, they had a big net, and they’d bail them out, dump them out, and they’d run them into the–with the water into the fish tanks, into what we used to call the tank room, and there’d be a man there bailing the fish out of the tank into a wooden sluice, that’s what we called a flaker,[it] was an elevator flaker, conveyor belt, that took the fish upstairs to the second floor, and there would be a guy putting flakes on it, and there was a big drum that dropped the fish onto this flake, which would spread them evenly, that drum would, then they’d put them in these tall wooden, what we call fish racks.
Charles Stinson was the owner of the Stinson Cannery in Prospect Harbor, which was established by his grandfather.
April 19, 2011
Prospect Harbor, ME
Interviewer: Keith Ludden
Recommended citation: Stinson, Charles Oral History Interview, April 9, 2011 by by Keith Ludden, Page #, Oral History and Folklife Research. Online: https://www.oralhistoryandfolklife.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Stinson-transcript_web-.pdf
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April 19, 2011
Prospect Harbor, ME
Interviewer: Keith Ludden
Recommended citation: Stinson, Charles Oral History Interview, April 19, 2011 by by Keith Ludden, Page #, Oral History and Folklife Research. Online: https://www.oralhistoryandfolklife.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Stinson-transcript_web-.pdf
Permission to quote from this transcript must be obtained from Oral History and Folklife Research. Please contact OHFR for further information.