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Schooner Salting Down a Herring Catch
Document Type: Photo/Image
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ID Number: Salting_Fish
Keywords: Fisheries, Herring, Salt
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Description:
A schooner loads herring from a small boat alongside, salting down the fish as it goes into the hold. The fishermen are standing thigh deep in fish presumably caught in the weir to the left rear of the photograph. Bagged salt is spread on the deck where it can be shoveled into the hold with layers of fish. A chute lets the fish be easily shoveled over the schooner's rail. Salt was a large portion of fishing expense in the days before gasoline and diesel engines.
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