File:FMIB 47728 View on Scrape Boat.jpeg

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Author
English: E. P. Churchill Jr.
Description
English: View on Scrape Boat

Showing a scrape (the triangular iron frame with the mesh bag), a crate with trays (for shipping soft crabs); a short-handled net for 'fishing out' the soft crabs from a float, a long-handled net for catching crabs on the bottom, and a wooden bailing scoop

  • Subject: Crab fisheries, Fishing boats
  • Geographic Subject: Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
  • Tag: Fisheries Techniques
Date 1920.00
institution QS:P195,Q219563
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English: Churchill, E. P. Jr. (1920) Crab industry of Chesapeake Bay, Report of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries for the Fiscal Year 1918, with Appendixes, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
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Public domain This is a photograph from the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank at the University of Washington. Materials in the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank are in the public domain. No copyright permissions are needed. Acknowledgement of the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank as a source for borrowed images is requested.

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