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Article: The origin, evolution, and demise of the U.S. sea turtle fisheries.
- Article from:
- Marine Fisheries Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 1994
- Author:
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"While I gazed on the large one, I thought of the soups the contents of its shell would have furnished for a `Lord Mayor's dinner' of the numerous eggs which its swollen body contained, and of the curious carriage which might be made of its shell,--a car in which Venus herself might sail over the Caribbean Sea, provided her tender doves lent their aid in drawing the divinity, and provided no shark or hurricane came to upset it."
Introduction
Fishing was America's first industry, and turtling played an important role in the nation's developing fisheries. However, before the European settlers arrived in the New World, Native Americans had already ...