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A Samoan woman cracks a piece of coral to extract a hidden sea urchin. Womenand youngsters comb the reefs around American Samoa for many kinds ofshellfish for use as food and to make shell leis and trinkets that will be soldto tourists. Few Samoans engage in commercial fishing enterprises.
Credit
NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection; P. 312 of Our Changing Fisheries 1970 Centenary NMFS centenary volume
Photographer
Artwork by Bob Hines
Display Date
1969 circa
Location
American Samoa
Collection
Historic Fisheries
NOAA Affiliation
BCF