Fish House Worker, 1940

Scope and content:

A fishhouse operator in Tarpon Bay on Sanibel scrapes mullet and ice down a chute into the fish runboat alongside, for shipment by runboat to Punta Gorda and then by rail to destinations north. The runboat brought ice and picked up fish catches on a schedule to a string of fishhouses that extended into the Ten Thousand Islands.

Subjects:

Fishing.

Places:

Sanibel (Fla.)
Captiva Island (Fla.)

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