Keywords: FMIB 48209 Scene along the river front at Fairhaven, showing a quahaug shanty and several skiffs, which are used in raking the small seed.jpeg check categories 17 September 2015 5 Scene along the river front at Fairhaven showing a quahaug shanty and several skiffs which are used in raking the small seed quahaugs from the Acushnet River Owing to the pollution within the restricted area quahaugs can only be taken from this river for transplanting purposes Since writing this report an act was passed in 1911 whereby the city of New Bedford and the town of Fairhaven by a common board govern the taking of quahaugs from this section by licenses and by restrictions as to selling and transplanting Subject Northern quahog Shellfish culture Fairhaven Massachusetts Geographic Subject United States--Massachusetts--Fairhaven Tag Shellfish 1912 Cite book Report Upon the Quahaug and Oyster Fisheries of Massachusetts Massachusetts Commissioners on Fisheries and Game Boston MA Wright Potter Printing Co 1912 Fig 55 State of Massachusetts Fish and Game Commission PD-UWASH-FMIB Institution University of Washington FMIB-source accession number 48209 Images from the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank to check State of Massachusetts Fish and Game Commission Mercenaria mercenaria Shellfish farming Fairhaven Fairhaven Massachusetts |