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Hauling the largest shad seine in the world

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Hauling the largest shad seine in the world. Spawn-taking operations on thePotomac River. Trying to save from extinction one of America's finest flavoredfood fish.In: The Boy with the U.S. Fisheries, by Francis Rolt-Wheeler, 1912. Boston,Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. P. 202.

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Historic Fisheries

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Fisheries

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