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Photos or videos of fishermen doing strange things. They can be found leaping off buildings into the harbor wearing only a jock strap and a funny hat or French kissing large sea creatures. Incidents like these are recorded by GMG either in photos, movies, or words. Real stories of real people. CGI or photoshopping is not allowed. Man vs. Food.
The Boston Fish Pier is the central site for the fishing industry based in Boston, Massachusetts. Located on Northern Avenue in South Boston in Boston's Inner Harbor, the pier has played this role since its establishment in 1910. In the 1920s, it was home to one of the largest fishing fleets in the eastern United States, processing 250 million ...
Many of the Boston Harbor islands that are located under Logan's flight paths are part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. Although most of the islands are in or near the Atlantic Ocean , several islands in western Massachusetts are found in the Connecticut River and a few others are surrounded by natural or man made lakes ...
Since the mid-1970s organizations within the Boston community have battled for a cleaner Boston Harbor. More recently, the harbor was the site of the $4.5 billion Boston Harbor Project. Failures at the Nut Island sewage treatment plant in Quincy and the companion Deer Island plant adjacent to Winthrop had far-reaching environmental and ...
A map of Boston Harbor from 1888. Before the colonization of the Americas, the area served as a trading post for Native Americans in the region. [citation needed] After the establishment of the Boston settlement by John Winthrop in 1630 and the creation of a local shipbuilding industry, the port served the rapidly expanding American colonies.
The Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area is managed by the Boston Harbor Islands Partnership, [27] a statutory body established as a federal operating committee by the park enabling legislation. The partnership consists of individual members who represent a range of federal, state, city, and nonprofit agencies, including:
Adventure is a gaff rigged knockabout schooner.She was built in Essex, Massachusetts, USA, and launched in 1926 to work the Grand Banks fishing grounds out of Gloucester.She is one of only two surviving knockabout fishing schooners – ships designed without bowsprits [2] for the safety of her crew.
Quincy Bay is the largest of the three small bays of southern Boston Harbor, [1] [2] part of Massachusetts Bay and forming much of the shoreline of the city of Quincy, Massachusetts. Locally in the Wollaston neighborhood of Quincy it is known as Wollaston Bay. [3] The bay is home to Moon Island, Long Island, and Hangman Island.