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[Quahots]:
These two sizes illustrate the sti ulating effect on growth of current, which acts as a food carrier. In each bet quahaugs of the same size were planted and allowed to remain for three years. The larger quahaugs were planted in a box on the raft, where the circulation of water was good; the smaller in the southeastern corner of the Powder Hole, not 75 yards from the raft, in shallow water among thick eelgrass, which shut off all circulation.
[Quahots]:<br>These two sizes illustrate the sti ulating effect on growth of current, which acts as a food carrier. In each bet quahaugs of the same size were planted and allowed to remain for three years. The larger quahaugs were planted in a box on the raft, where the circulation of water was good; the smaller in the southeastern corner of the Powder Hole, not 75 yards from the raft, in shallow water among thick eelgrass, which shut off all circulation.
CategoryShellfish
Caption[Quahots]:
These two sizes illustrate the sti ulating effect on growth of current, which acts as a food carrier. In each bet quahaugs of the same size were planted and allowed to remain for three years. The larger quahaugs were planted in a box on the raft, where the circulation of water was good; the smaller in the southeastern corner of the Powder Hole, not 75 yards from the raft, in shallow water among thick eelgrass, which shut off all circulation.
Image Date1912
SubjectNorthern quahog--Growth
Shellfish culture
Image Source AuthorMassachusetts. Commissioners on Fisheries and Game.
Image Source TitleReport Upon the Quahaug and Oyster Fisheries of Massachusetts
Pub. Info.Boston, MA : Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1912
Page No./Plate No.Fig. 52
Digital collectionFreshwater and Marine Image Bank
RepositoryMost materials are located in the University of Washington Libraries. Images were scanned by staff of the UW Fisheries-Oceanography Library.
CopyrightMaterials in the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank are in the public domain. No copyright permissions are needed. Acknowledgement of the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank as a source for borrowed images is requested.
Ordering InformationThe University of Washington Libraries does not provide reproductions of this image. This record contains a citation for this image. If you want to use the scanned image, acknowledgement of the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank as a source for borrowed images is requested.
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