Fisherwomen in old photos

Fisherwomen in old photos

Categories: History

Who said that fishing is not a woman's business? Women fish as well as men, and in some countries it is not appropriate for a man to do this at all. We offer you to look at the fishermen of different times and from different countries.

Fisherwomen in old photos

Fisherwomen in old photos

1. Three Scottish fishermen are waiting for the arrival of a fishing ship in England, 1929. Thousands of women traveled from Scotland to Great Yarmouth to process the catch during the autumn herring season. (Photo by Topical Press Agency)

Fisherwomen in old photos

2. A woman from the Sami people in a fur coat catches fish in an ice hole in Alaska, circa 1950. (Photo by Evans/Three Lions)

Fisherwomen in old photos

3. A group of Japanese underwater fishermen "amas" is preparing for work near the small village of Onyuki in Chiba Prefecture in August 1959. These women collect algae, stripped to the waist. (Photo by Keystone Features)

Fisherwomen in old photos

4. Hollywood star Pat Alfin is fishing around 1935. (Photo by Hulton Archive)

Fisherwomen in old photos

5. A girl from the West African Republic of Liberia with nets and a pot for fishing, circa 1955 (Photo by Three Lions)

Fisherwomen in old photos

6. Fisherman Storsley Maner from New Hampshire catches lobsters off the coast of New England. Lobsters were sold to restaurants in New York. 1950. (Photo by Hulton Archive)

Fisherwomen in old photos

7. Queen Elizabeth (1900-2002) catches rainbow trout on the banks of the Waikato River in Auckland on April 29, 1966. (Photo by Central Press)

Fisherwomen in old photos

8. A group of Scottish fishermen arrived in Great Yarmouth on board the fishing vessel "Paradigm" on the eve of the autumn herring fishing season. Women knit in anticipation of the catch. September 27, 1928. (Photo by Harold Clements/London Express)

Fisherwomen in old photos

9. Japanese fishermen, more precisely, algae collectors in Chiba Prefecture in August 1959. Stripped to the waist, they collect algae in such buckets. (Photo by Keystone Features)

Fisherwomen in old photos

10. Women put salt on the bottom of the barrel before processing the herring. 1937. (Photo by Topical Press Agency)

Fisherwomen in old photos

11. Japanese algae collectors. These women dive 15 meters under the water to collect algae, which they put in wooden buckets floating on the surface. Seaweed is eaten all over Japan. (Photo by Keystone Features)

Fisherwomen in old photos

12. Dev girls fishing on the weekend on the Tamar River in Cornwall on August 18, 1951. (Photo by Reg Speller/Fox Photos)

Fisherwomen in old photos

13. A Japanese girl adjusts her mask before diving under the water in May 1956. (Photo by Keystone Features)

Fisherwomen in old photos

14. Elderly women pull a catch in Devon in 1927. (Photo by Central Press)

Fisherwomen in old photos

15. Fishermen from Yarmouth push barrels of herring with long sticks, 1929. (Photo by Fox Photos)

Fisherwomen in old photos

16. Women carry full baskets of fish in Devon in 1927. (Photo by Central Press)

Fisherwomen in old photos

17. A fisherman in Great Yarmouth with a catch. October 18, 1932. (Photo by Fox Photos)

Fisherwomen in old photos

18. A woman catches a flounder in a canal in Thailand, around 1955. (Photo by Three Lions)

Fisherwomen in old photos

19. A woman is fishing in a residential part of Vientiane– the capital and largest city of Laos. 1961. (Photo by Keystone Features)

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