Damon, who lives in Trenton, is a former state senate chairman of the Legislature’s Marine Resources Committee and was one of Maine’s three commissioners to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission in Washington, D.C.
Damon’s remarks came during a class he is offering through the Acadia Senior College. His five-session series, "The Maine Fisherman," began on Jan. 24 and will run through Feb. 28. It will cover topics such as the progression over time of the fishing mindset; the development of various types of fishing gear and fishing methods; conservation and the environment and what they meant to the future of the fishery and fishermen; and the many regulations proposed or now in place.
Damon said that, in his youth, a fisherman could handline an average of 700 or 800 pounds of groundfish — mostly cod and a little bit of haddock, hake and cusk.
He referenced a term that is commonly used in fisheries management, “catch per unit of effort.”
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