Catch of the Day
By Joshua F. Moore
Walter Tolman knows how to draw a crowd. From the group of onlookers, at left, who have gathered on the docks of the Lane-Libby Fisheries Company in Carvers Harbor to the piles of cod, hake, and pollock that cover his decks, the arrival of Captain Tolman, standing at lower right on the foredeck of his sloop, Lelia E. Tolman, was always a noteworthy event on Vinalhaven Island. Bountiful catches such as this one, captured in the nets stacked in the dories at far right during forays out to the Grand Banks, were an important part of what had built the island enterprise of Edwin Lane and Thomas Libby into the largest fish-curing plant in Maine.
