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BULLETIN OP THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE LV. 
Fig. 42. CaDvas-covered butchering float in the distance, with “ butcher” at work cutting open and 
removing roe from “ a cow sturgeon.” Barge in the foreground, containing heads, tails, vis- 
cera, skins, etc., of sturgeons awaiting removal to the guano manufactory, and representing 
the accumulations of two or three days’ fishing and butchering. 
