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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1918
Page
3
A voyage on the fishing steamer Ranger, part of The Fisheries Products fleet, follows menhaden fatback aboard off the Carolina coast. Captains Lemuel S. Brown and Lawrence L. Brown command a double crew to haul plentiful fish, with seas, fishing methods, and river-to-sea operations described by the observer on board.
The Wilmington Dispatch describes purse boats racing in a circular course to corral fish. The striker signals with an oar as boats spread and nets deploy, creating an extended mesh barrier drifting before the fish while the crew rows hard toward the point of capture.
I F Cates recalls fishing aboard the Fisheries Products fleet near Reedville Virginia as menhaden are cooked into fish scrap and oil. The oil aids steel and shell production while scrap feeds fertilizer and agriculture. The operation employs coastal steamers and a bucket crane system to process the catch for near real time shipment to farms and mills.
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