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Gathering commercial oysters is done chiefly by dredging or tonging.However, in certain areas much harvesting was done by oystermen who gather themby hand at low tide.
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A mountain of oysters. Where spawning conditions are good, oysters in their natural state will attach themselves, one generation atop another, until great ridges of them exist up to high tide. However, such oysters are poor quality and of little co
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Oyster shells are recycled by planting them on soft muddy bottom. This gives afirm surface for the attachment of young oysters and helps provide larger crops.
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Hundred of starfish dredged or scraped off an oyster bed. Starfish attack young oysters and threaten the well-being of the oyster crop. F&WL; 12,416.
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Starfish attacking young oysters. Special equipment is used to dredge or scrape starfish off oyster beds in order to reduce the damage to the oysters.F&W; 12,001.
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Mackerel being unloaded, salted, and barreled at the Boston Fish Pier.F&WL; 12,351.
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A 500-lb bucket of yellow-fin tuna being swung off a vessel to a receivingtrough for further processing. F&WL; 12,575.
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A 500-lb bucket of yellow-fin tuna being swung off a vessel to a receivingtrough for further processing. F&WL; 12,575.
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A 500-lb bucket of yellow-fin tuna ready to be offloaded from fishing vesselto a receiving trough for further processing. F&WL; 12,343.
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A 500-lb bucket of yellow-fin tuna ready to be offloaded from fishing vesselto a receiving trough for further processing. F&WL; 12,343.
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A 500-lb bucket of yellow-fin tuna being offloaded from fishing vesselto a receiving trough for further processing. F&WL; 12,579.
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Women preparing tuna for canning at a plant in southern California.
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Fisherman casting his net. Photo F&WL; 12,571.
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Purse seining. Salmon swimming near the surface are surrounded with a wall ofnetting, which is supported by floats. Lines are then drawn tight in the lowersurface of the net to purse it into a baglike shape. The fish are then bailedout of the net.
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Shrimp trawl operations. The 60-foot trawl has been raised preparatory tobrailing out the shrimp. Photo B-50229.
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Hauling in beach seine from the Columbia River by horse teams. F&WL; 12,496.
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Men hauling in beach seine heavy with Columbia River salmon. F&WL; 12,495.
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This barge-load of salmon attests to why the Alaska salmon fishery was the mostvaluable fishery prosecuted by U. S. fishermen at the time of this photo.F&WL; C-1193.
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Knee-deep in salmon. Salmon being transferred to a large boat on which they are iced and hauled to a cannery. F&W; 12,935.
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