A similar oyster dredging schooner, the Katherine M . Lee which is also listed on the NRHP, was also docked near Front and Lombard streets in Leipsic, Delaware.
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The largest leaseholder of oyster dredge sections and oyster banks in Moreton Bay from the late 1870s to the 1920s was The Moreton Bay Oyster Company, established in 1876.
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Across the harbor from Murphy's slip are a handful of skipjacks-- a vanishing fleet of traditional oyster dredge boats and the last commercial sailing fishing fleet in North America.
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A similar oyster dredging schooner, the " Maggie S . Myers " which is also listed on the NRHP, was also docked near Front and Lombard streets in Leipsic, Delaware.
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In particular, it demonstrates the important relationship of the oyster reserves established by the Queensland government in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, to the working of oyster banks and oyster dredge sections.
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A "'fishing dredge "', also known as a "'scallop dredge "'or "'oyster dredge "', is a kind of dredge which is towed along the bottom of the sea by a fishing boat in order to collect a targeted edible bottom-dwelling species.
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In 1981, the National Underwater and Marine Agency ( NUMA ) contracted with Underwater Archaeological Joint Ventures ( UAJV ), a private firm based in Yorktown, VA . UAJV team members consulted local watermen ( whose oyster dredges had picked up artifacts for years ) to help locate the ships.
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"The first attempt to use steam power for oyster dredging of which we have any knowledge was made at Norwalk Conn when a boiler and engine were put on board the sloop Early Bird in 1874 for the purpose only of turning the drums with which the dredge lines were hauled.
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Bodine s best known picture was taken while he was finishing a " " Sun " " magazine story on oyster dredging . "'" Choptank Oyster Dredgers " "'won first prize, a $ 5, 000 savings bond, as " best black and white picture " in a 1949 " " Popular Photography " " magazine contest which attracted 51, 038 entries.
