Commercial Fishing Video Of The Day | Halibut History 1940

Via Youtube: Fishermen unloading halibut from boat, possibly at Prince Rupert in Canada, according to the filmmaker’s notes. The filmmaker added that the halibut heads were cut off and used for fertilizer. (B&W/Silent/16mm film). This sequence contains excerpts from AAF-2996 from the Charles L. Stevens collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.

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