Downeast Harborside

I just spent the 4th of July in the fishing village of Corea, Maine.  A village I know quite well as I have been going there since I was 14 years old (just a "few" years ago).  The fishing community is a tight knit group of men, women and children who make their living from the ocean.  In the 40+ years I have been going to Corea, there was little change over the years.  The people stayed the same, the houses stayed the same and you could count on the boats leaving the harbor before the sun was up and returning with crates full of lobster.    The boats are still leaving the harbor, sometimes returning with full crates, other times just hoping to break even after buying bait, filling their tanks and paying the sternman.  The people are changing though.  The houses are going for sale and the "outta statas" are buying the property.  The fishermen are now living out of town, commuting to the harbor for work.

I started this series to document the men, women and children who work out of the harbor and continue the Maine tradition of Lobstering.