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trolley over to Fairhaven and called on the Silva Shellfish Company 

 which is now interested in our exhibition projects and will send us an 

 exhibit of the tools used in the shellfish industry. 



With the rough weather still continuing and no hope of a reasonably 

 short trip out to sea, I was forced to content myself with collecting 

 data and photographs relating to the swordfishing industry. Figure 29 

 shows the pulpit of one of these swordfishing vessels with Captain Wm. 

 Doyle posed in it, harpoon in hand, to illustrate the method employed 

 in taking the swordfish. I next journeyed over to Boston, calling at 



Fig. 29. — Swordfishing pulpit on the bowsprit of a vessel. Showing the har- 

 poon poised and ready for action. 



the Office of the Atlantic Fisherman. Here I received a fine photo- 

 graph of a captured swordfish being swung abroad ship by block and 

 tackle, an unusual picture and a good study of this sort. This picture 

 certainly tells the story, and is used by this magazine on the title page 

 of its July, 1922, number. Also other photographs relating to Atlantic 

 sea fishing were made accessible. 



I next visited the Boston fish wharves and had a pleasant visit with 

 Mr. R. J. Wheeler, the Superintendent. He is generously providing 

 us with an exhibit of the apparatus commonly used in the taking of 



