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Commercial vessels, under contract to the BCF, skimming dead alewives from thesurface of Lake Michigan

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Description

Commercial vessels, under contract to the BCF, skimming dead alewives from thesurface of Lake Michigan. For years, dieoffs of overabundant alewives havecreated health and aesthetic problems.

Credit

NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection; P. 331 of Our Changing Fisheries 1970 Centenary NMFS centenary volume

Display Date

1969 circa

Location

Lake Michigan

Collection

Historic Fisheries