Collection search - Pêcheurs de l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard à bord de doris dans la baie Malpeque

Titre fondé sur la légende suivante tirée du photoreportage de l'ONF: August fifteenth opening of oyster fishing on privately-leased beds sees fleet of dories setting out into Malpeque Bay, P.E.I. Fishermen working public grounds generally concentrate on beds fairly close to shore, leaving larger beds in center of bay to big commercial companies. To preserve east coast beds, which by 1900 were almost totally depleted by overfishing and ravages of mussel, drills and starfish, the federal Fisheries Research Board was set up to bring science to the aid of the oyster industry.