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Aboard a trawler. Selecting fish and cutting off heads. Only mackerel, whiting, and occasional flounder or halibut are kept. Thrown from trough into ice-filled hold. Fish heads and non-marketable fish are thrown into sea, above which hundreds of sea gulls wait hungrily. Provincetown, Massachusetts

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Aboard a trawler. Selecting fish and cutting off heads. Only mackerel, whiting, and occasional flounder or halibut are kept. Thrown from trough into ice-filled hold. Fish heads and non-marketable fish are thrown into sea, above which hundreds of sea gulls wait hungrily. Provincetown, Massachusetts

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01/01/1937
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Rosskam, Edwin, 1903-, photographer
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Provincetown (Mass.), 42.05833, -70.17861
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