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Scales shed from herring are collected to make pearl essence - a lustrous anddecorative finish applied to many products like baby toys, dolls, clothing,jewelry, etc

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Scales shed from herring are collected to make pearl essence - a lustrous anddecorative finish applied to many products like baby toys, dolls, clothing,jewelry, etc. Small herring, caught along the Maine coast, furnish theprincipal raw material for our pearl essence industry. The fish will be cannedand sold as Maine sardines.

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NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection; P. 79 of Our Changing Fisheries 1970 Centenary NMFS centenary volume

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Historic Fisheries