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Untitled photo, possibly related to: Aboard a trawler. Selecting fish and cutting off heads. Only mackerel, whiting and occasional flounder or halibut are kept. Thrown from trough into ice-filled hold. Fish heads and non-marketable fish are thrown into sea above which hundreds of seagulls wait hungr
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Credit lineUntitled photo, possibly related to: Aboard a trawler. Selecting fish and cutting off heads. Only mackerel, whiting and occasional flounder or halibut are kept. Thrown from trough into ice-filled hold. 1937-01-01. Rosskam, Edwin. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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