(1934, July 10). 8,000 Pounds of Fish Taken By Four Baldwin Baymen. The Nassau Daily Review, (Tuesday, July 10, 1934), 5. https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=tnd19340710-01.1.5&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN----------
The below demonstrates the Verity Skiff load capacity
If we met on a dock, and I said my Grandpa and three of his friends caught 8,000 pounds of fish in 2 small 26' skiffs, and there were so many fish that only two planks were above the waterline,
would you believe me?
Two sea skiffs, pictured in the view at the left alongside the wharf in front of Whealey’s Sea Food market, Baldwin Harbor, brought in a total catch of 8,000 pounds of sea bass, blue and weak fish yesterday morning – the largest catch for all time along the South Shore. The fish were snared in pots and nets set four miles off the city of Long Beach. Four men comprised the fisherman party which has the distinction of having “come home” with the largest mess in history. At the right the fish are being prepared for distribution to various points at Whealey’s market, one of the centers for sea food products in Nassau county.
8,000 Pounds of Fish Taken By Four Baldwin Baymen
Catch Off Long Beach Breaks All-Time Record, say Boat Crews
Four tons—8,000 pounds----of fish.
Quite a catch even a layman will say! But it’s more than that, the load that four Baldwin harbor fishermen brought to shore yesterday morning. It was the largest catch ever brought in along the South Shore for this or any other season, according to weathered fishermen along the line.
Loaded to Gunwales
That catch included sea bass, blue fish and weak fish, with plenty poundage in all three species.
While the fishermen at Whealey’s Sea Food market n Baldwin Harbor ply the waters off Long Beach, where they have their pots and nets, each morning, their efforts never have been rewarded with the results they had yesterday morning when they “hauled in.”
Lester Whealey, Lester and John Carman, and Louis Verity, all of Baldwin Harbor, manned two sea skiffs at an early hour and put out for the fishing banks four miles off Long Beach expecting to make only the average catch.
But as the pots and net were pulled in it was evident the day and night’s accumulation was a record haul. The fish were piled high over the gunwales and the skiffs proceeded slowly back to port where the fish were made ready for distribution.
Pots and nets are set each morning with the fishermen returning the following day to gather the fish lured into the traps.
Retyped from(1934, July 10). 8,000 Pounds of Fish Taken By Four Baldwin Baymen. The Nassau Daily Review, (Tuesday, July 10, 1934), 5. https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=tnd19340710-01.1.5&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN----------
