Here we see this month’s full moon as it rose over Naskeag Harbor on August 15. The August full moon is most commonly called “The Sturgeon Moon,” which was the Algonquin Tribe’s descriptor relating to the time when that fish is most easily caught in what is now the United States' Northeast.
However, in the Pacific Northwest, the Haida Tribe called this moon “The Salmon Moon.” The Cree Tribe, in what is now the Ontario area, called the August moon “The Flying Up Moon,” perhaps because some birds start to migrate in August. The Ojibwe tribe,in what is now southeast Canada, called it (and sometimes the July moon) “The Blackberry Moon,” in reference to when those berries became ripe. (Brooklin, Maine)