1. Larger commercial fishing boats like the Edward L. Moore (ELM) can make trips in foul weather when smaller craft must stay in port. Usually higher prices are obtained for the catch at auction when the going gets too rough for much of the competition. Three fishermen died on the day this photograph was taken, December 14, 2000. Their 35' mussel dragging boat was swamped by several waves, about eighty miles to the northeast of Portland, near Jonesport, Maine. Portland, Maine Fish Pier