Laurents Hansen shorehand for the boat Hirshois, a 40 ft. gillnetter belonging to Ole Mikkelsen and Eynar Havgard of Portland, Maine, is reeling nets made by Nylock Twine and using the new plastic floats made by Dale Plastic Corp.

This is part of the Atlantic Fisherman collection: correspondence, photographs and news articles to and from the Atlantic Fisherman, a journal concerned with commercial fishing.