Commercial Fishing
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Oyster harvesting using rakes (top) and sail driven dredges (bottom). From L'Encyclpédie of 1771
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Oyster culture using tiles as culch. Taken from The Illustrated London News 1881
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Department of Gironde (33) - Andernos-les-Bains, little boats of the oyster culturists (circa 1920)
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Fishing vessels at the Dock, Portland, Maine. From a c. 1908 postcard
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