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Checking oyster raft at BCF Oxford Laboratory

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Description

Checking oyster raft at BCF Oxford Laboratory. Shells or other hard objects areattached to suspended lines, and oyster spat in turn can attach to the hardobjects on which the spat grow to adult size.

Credit

NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection; P. 446 of Our Changing Fisheries 1970 Centenary NMFS centenary volume

Location

Maryland, Oxford

Collection

Historic Fisheries