Shrimp fishermen at Cavite Vieng, Cavite Province, Luzon, 1900.

Whitman patent steam curer. Sliding trays into the kiln. Ellis Whitman & Co.

Whaler. New Bedford, repairing. 1899.

Swordfish vessels. Block Island. 1899.

Fishing boats, Block Island, 1899.

Herring weir, Bar Harbor, 1899.

Reels for drying and mending gill nets, Alpena, MI.

Whalemen (two colored Cape de Verde negroes), New Bedford, MA, 1882.

Shad fishery, Albermarle Sound, NC, baiting the seine.

Alewife fishery, Albermarle Sound, NC, hauling seine on landing platform.

Unidentified.

Drying seine on reel, Great Lakes.

Preparing fish halibut for shipment.

Halibut fishing boat discharging, Gloucester, MA.

Salted halibut on the flakes before going to smokehouse. H. H. Hanson & Sons.

Dressing and salting mackerel on board vessel, Gloucester Harbor, MA.

Drying codfish in flake yard at Gloucester, MA.

Deep water oyster tongs as hauled from bed.

Waterfront scene.

Sperm whale stranded.

Grampus stranded.

Blackfish stranded.

Whale being cut up.

The crab house and drying rack (with floats laid up for the winter).

A crab-house "yard", Crisfield, MD, Aug. 1903.

A drawer of soft crabs packed for shipment, Crisfield, MD, Aug. 1902.

A crab-float filled with shedding crabs, Crisfield, MD, Aug. 1902.

Leary Rake, aquatic plants.

Lydell Rake used in aquatic plants, Norville Mich. Sta 109, Lydell, MI.

Oyster shucking houses showing available for oyster culture.

Matagorda Bay, Texas, oyster investigation. Oysters from Half Moon Reef showing pits and chambers of boring clams.

Matagorda Bay, TX, oyster investigation, oysters from Mad Island Reef.

Matagorda Bay, TX, oyster investigation, oysters from Forked Bayou Reef.

Matagorda Bay, TX, oyster investigation, oysters from East Point Reef.

Oyster investigation, Matagorda Bay, Texas, Maverick Bayou oyster.

Oyster investigation, Matagorda Bay, Texas, Gove Bayou oyster.

Mammoth Spring raft (aquatic plants #643), 1909.

Whale slabs of white bone in warehouse at New Bedford, 1902.

A crabber's camp on Tangier Island, VA, Aug. 1902.

Crab houses and yard of Crisfield, MD, Aug. 1903.

Aquatic products in Arts and Industries, whalebone, New Bedford, MA.

Oysters average size at 3 months old, grown on oyster shells at Mile Bay.

Oysters average size at 3 months old, grown on oyster shells at Mile Bay.

Oysters average size, 1 year, grown at LA, Doc. 731 - plate 4.

Oyster average size 1 and 2 years old respectively, grown on oyster shells at Bayou St. Denis, LA, Doc 731 - pl 1.

Oyster average size 24 and 33 months old respectively, grown on clam shell at Bayou St. Denis, LA, Doc 731 - pl 3.

Oyster average size 33 months old grown on oyster shell at L. Bay, LA, Doc 731 - plate 7.

Oyster average size grown in 29 months from seed about 2.5 inches long, Bayou Lambone, Louisiana. Doc 731 - pl 5.

Oyster average size 33 months old grown on oyster shell at Bayou St. Denis, Louisiana, Doc 731 - plate 2.

Fresh water mussel dredge.