Image ID 14-192 Click On the image To Return To the All Photograph Scans | This original photograph was printed by A. Aubrey Bodine during his career.
Image ID 14-192
Title Purse Netters
Date 1954
Description A bunker boat(the big one) comes up to purse boats that have closed a net about a school of menhaden in the bay near Cape Charles. In point of numbers caught, the lowly menhaden is America's top fish. Yearly, 1,500,000,000 or more are taken along our east coast alone-to become fertilizer, or oil that will go into soap, paint, linoleum and other things. The chief Eastern fishing port is Reedville, Virginia and it is boats from there that most of these pictures show. They are working in the lower bay when photogrpahed, but by this time will be down off North Carolina.
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