Oyster buy-boat
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oyster-buy-boat-285-4885958
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Oyster buy-boat
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An oyster buy-boat, also known as deck boat, is an approximately 40–90 foot long wooden boat with a large open deck which serviced oyster tongers and dredgers. Similar in function to sardine carriers, buy boats circulated among the harvesters collecting their catches, then delivered their loads to a wholesaler or oyster processing house. This spared the fishermen the task and its downtime, allowing them to catch more oysters. Buy-boats also bought seed oysters, or spat, for planting in oyster be
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster_buy-boat
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2023-06-20T20:41:23Z
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