July 21, 1997
North Shore commercial fishery remembered in museumShare
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Mary Losure - Reporter, Walter Sve - Interviewee, Brian Tofte - Interviewee, Kermit Carlsen - Interviewee
MPR's Mary Losure files this story about the North Shore's fishing families and the environmental catastrophes that destroyed their way of life. In the 1930's, Lake Superior supported a thriving commercial fishing industry. Now, on a lake holding one tenth of the world's fresh water, only a handful of commercial fishermen and women remain.
The tiny town of Tofte on the north shore of Lake Superior opened a museum to honor the Scandinavian fishing families who once made a living on the lake's rugged coastline.
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