Coming in to their home port - Friendship, Maine
 Raising the winch man
 The winch man
 17 barrels to get up on the wharf and into the freezer
 Each barrel of pogies weights about 400 pounds
 17 barrels of Brevoortia tyrannus - member of the herring family.
 Everyone works together
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 repeatedly wetting down the wharf to make it easier
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