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Pumping alewives from a poundnet in Milwaukee Harbor

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Description

Pumping alewives from a poundnet in Milwaukee Harbor. This prolific fish- an invasive species in the Great Lakes - dominated Lake Michigan catchesduring the 1960's.

Credit

NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection; P. 412 of Our Changing Fisheries 1970 Centenary NMFS centenary volume

Location

Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Collection

Historic Fisheries