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Porpoising Along the Outer Banks in the Early 1900s
Record #:
29890
Author(s):
Gray, Landry
;
Umphlett, Ralph
Abstract:
Damon Gray spent several years as a porpoise fisherman on the North Carolina Outer Banks. Men would gather in dories to surround the porpoise schools, and oil from the jawbones was used to make machinery and watches.
Source:
Sea Chest
(NoCar F 262 D2 S42),
Vol. 4 Issue 3, Spring 1978
,
p
38-41, il, por
Subject(s):
Porpoises