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Description
Sacking 5-pound bags of scallops for freezing. This new fishery - along withshrimp and crab fishing - is helping to diversify Alaska's fishing industry,which until recently depended almost entirely on the highly seasonal salmon andhalibut fisheries.
Credit
NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection; P. 278 of Our Changing Fisheries 1970 Centenary NMFS centenary volume
Location
Alaska, Seward
Collection
Historic Fisheries