#fishermen

1986 postcard from the Maryland Watermen’s Association depicting Chesapeake Bay oyster fishermen furling sails on their skipjack, a traditional sail-powered fishing vessel of the Chesapeake Bay. Due to local restrictions on the use of power boats for dredging, a handful of skipjacks continue to dredge for oysters in the bay to this day.

Marstrand fishermen in the morning sun - Carl Ljungman , n/d

Swedish , 1840-1901

Fishermen from Kherson with their catch of greater sturgeons, 1920s

Sturgeons had been thriving in the Dnipro River until the construction of the Kakhovka Dam in 1956, which disrupted their habitat and drove them out completely. After the russian troops destroyed the dam in 2023, sturgeons have been spotted in the Dnipro after 70 years of absence.