Elvers Fishery & Harding Smith Rescue

Today’s Press Herald includes an article about the elver fishery licenses,

“At certain times during the season, prices were running above $2,600 a pound,” said Deirdre Gilbert, the department’s director of state marine policy. “The year before, prices were about $900 a pound. The prices went through the roof in 2012.”

and a report on the rescue of Harding Smith’s rescue from harbor during Nemo.

Quattrucci, whose uncles own DiMillo’s, said that 15 minutes or more after they heard the screams, they saw Smith hanging from the line to his boat, with his arms above his head.

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