
Sturgeon fishing on the Volga River, 1924. Pictured here are Beluga Sturgeon, which can reach immense sizes of up to 7 metres. The record Beluga Sturgeon was caught in the Volga estuary in 1827 and weighed 1,571 kg. / src: imgur
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Sturgeon fishing on the Volga River, 1924. Pictured here are Beluga Sturgeon, which can reach immense sizes of up to 7 metres. The record Beluga Sturgeon was caught in the Volga estuary in 1827 and weighed 1,571 kg. / src: imgur

436 pound record Black Sea Bass being reeled up (the Bass flag flying) caught by Levin Graham Murphy on 80 line, Santa Catalina Island, July 16, 1905 / src: Islapedia.com

Peche à la crevette, France, vers 1900. / Shrimp fishing, France, ca. 1900 / source: Lumière des Roses
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Frank Hurley :: Hamilton hand-netting for macro-plankton from Aurora, ca. 1912. Silver gelatin print
/ src: State Library of New South Wales
Oceanography: marine biological programme and other zoological and botanical activities. Photographs from the first Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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Leonard Freed :: Tuna Fishing, Egadi Island, Sicily, Italy, 1975 /
src: Magnum Photos
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Tom Kidd :: Angling party, Sandwick, Scotland, 1970′s / src: Scotland’s Far North Exhibition

Children fish for shrimps in the rock pools on Hunstanton beach in Norfolk in 1905. (Photo: Mary Evans Picture Library) / stc: The Mirror