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Fisheries

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Aquaculture

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Images from the collections

Images about Fisheries

9 images from works
  • Fishing: rod and line fishing in runnng waters. Etching, c.1762, by R. Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Fishing: a trap for fish in the Seine, below the Pont Notre Dame in Paris; three-quarter view (top), and elevation (below) Engraving, c.1762, by R. Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Fishing: people smoking herrings and sardines; pots and nets for trapping them. Etching, ca.1762, by R. Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Memorandum : from: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
  • Fishing: structures designed to trap fish brought in by the tides. Etching, c.1762, by R. Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Fishing: seine-fishing for shad, with two dragnets . Etching, ca.1762, by R. Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Memorandum : from: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
  • Fishing: three different designs of net. Engraving, c.1762, by R. Benard after J.L. Goussier.
  • Fishing: trawling for shad, three-quarter view (top), and plan (below) Engraving, c.1762, by R. Benard after L.J. Goussier.

Works from the collections

40 works

    • Books

    A short history of the Irish Sea herring fisheries during the eighteen and nineteen centuries / by W.C. Smith.

    Smith, W. C. | Date: 1923
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Memorandum : from: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

    Great Britain. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. | Date: [1960?]
    • Books

    Zeeziek : Hoe kolkt de waanzinnige zee in lichaam en geest / [Renaud Bardez and others].

    | Date: [2013]
    • Books

    Part of two letters to the publisher from James Cunningham, F.R.S. and physician to the English at Chusan in China, giving an account of his voyage thither, of the island of Chusan, of the several sorts of tea, of the fishing, agriculture of the Chinese, &c. with several observations not hitherto taken notice of

    Cunningham, James, d. 1709?. | Date: 1708
    • Books
    • Online

    Fish stock conservation and management : government response : report / Select Committee on Science and Technology.

    Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. Science and Technology Committee. | Date: 1996

Related topics

Fishes
Fishing nets
Shellfish

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