History of Fishing - Commercial Fishing

Commercial Fishing

  • Oyster harvesting using rakes (top) and sail driven dredges (bottom). From L'Encyclpédie of 1771

  • Oyster culture using tiles as culch. Taken from The Illustrated London News 1881

  • Department of Gironde (33) - Andernos-les-Bains, little boats of the oyster culturists (circa 1920)

  • Fishing vessels at the Dock, Portland, Maine. From a c. 1908 postcard

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Famous quotes containing the words commercial and/or fishing:

    “It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “The wildness and adventure that are in fishing still recommended it to me.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)