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A black and white photo of people on a boat, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of people on a boat, Great Depression. FSA/OWI...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a group of men on a boat, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of men on a boat, Great Depression....

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a man on a boat, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a man on a boat, Great Depression. FSA/OWI ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

Aboard a trawler (locally called a dragger). The power-driven winch le...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of people on a boat, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of people on a boat, Great Depression. FSA/OWI...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a man working on a boat, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a man working on a boat, Great Depression. ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a man on a boat, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a man on a boat, Great Depression. FSA/OWI ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a group of men on a boat, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of men on a boat, Great Depression....

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a group of men on a boat, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of men on a boat, Great Depression....

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A couple of men standing next to each other. War Poduction. Office of War Information.

A couple of men standing next to each other. War Poduction. Office of ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of people on a boat. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

A black and white photo of people on a boat. Great Depression FSA phot...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A couple of men standing on top of a boat. FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of men standing on top of a boat. FSA / Office of War Informa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.