Net Making and Net Fishing in Florida

Related Resources

Videos on Florida Memory

  • Florida Seafare
    This film shows the many types of commercially harvested seafood in Florida. Footage shows commercial fishermen, oystermen, crabbing, shrimping and seine net fishing for mullet.
  • Mullet Country
    This film shows mullet fisherman setting nets at night.

Additional Resources From the Florida Folklife Program

  • Fishing All My Days: Florida Shrimping Traditions, Florida Folklife Program
    This 1986 film about open-sea shrimp fishing in Florida shows the techniques, rituals and superstitions of African-American, Anglo and Mediterranean fishermen. Included is documentation of the building of a wooden spring boat and of the various kinds of nets that were developed for the open sea.

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