Fishing for sardine off the Atlantic coast of Brittany. Fishermen in small boats trawling with huge nets. Peche a la sardine, cotes de Bretagne. Drawing by Edouard Riou after a photograph by L. Hautefeuille. Woodcut by Henri Hildibrand from Alfred Fredol’s Le Monde de la Mer, the World of the Sea, edited by Olivier Fredol, Librairie Hachette et. Cie., Paris, 1881. Alfred Fredol was the pseudonym of French zoologist and botanist Alfred Moquin-Tandon, 1804-1863.

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