Aboard a trawler (locally called a dragger). The power-driven winch lets out the starboard net. While over fishing grounds one of two nets is constantly in the water, dragging along the bottom. Boats are powerful, diesel-engined, between forty and seventy-five feet long. Their unrestricted use has done much to cause the "fish-famine" along this coast because nets bring up everything, fish, minnows and even spawn. Provincetown, Massachusetts
Summary
Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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Date
01/01/1937
Contributors
Rosskam, Edwin, 1903-, photographer
Location
Provincetown (Mass.), 42.05833, -70.17861
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html