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The Bank Hand-Line Cod Fishery Schooner
Document Type: Photo/Image
Geographic Location: Grand Banks
Date: 1887
Creator: Goode, G. Brown
ID Number: Goode_Bank_Line
Keywords: Fisheries, Cod
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Description:
Old style Grand Bank cod schooner; crew at rail hand-line fishing. Mainers without the capital to invest in schooner carrying dories, a dory trawler, continued to fish these smaller schooner into the late 19th century, after they were obsolete on the Banks.
This image is from G. Brown Goode's The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States, 1884-1887, Section V, Plate 23. The book can be found on line att http://celebrating200years.noaa.gov/rarebooks/fisheries/welcome.html.
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