Herring Fishermen:: Images of an Eastern North Carolina Tradition

by Frank Stephenson

Book Overview

With their dip nets, pound nets, haul seines and juniper boats, residents of Eastern North Carolina waited for the river herring to come home in March, April and May to where they had been spawned. They waited for the muddy rivers, creeks, branches and small streams to flash with a white and silver.

In the past, millions of herring would swim up Eastern North Carolina's rivers and creeks from the Atlantic Ocean to spawn each spring. Herring...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596292695
• ISBN13: 9781596292697
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.7"