Show july Is sponge fishing season big tropical industry revved 7 xi 30 p A m q I 1 ak A A S S take betge coasts of albami fla arid nas W of the bahama is lands group front which conics most ofa 0 sponge s used in V S homes the above view shows the ctet at anchor og the aritia CO lonial quay at nassau N sponges are taken front which put out front the sloops when a bed is sigried sig hied fisher men carry alasi bot tomed buckets and 3 cars others right pick by hand n J ax k vaa y sponges grow at almost any depth of water above photo shows natives picking them from a shallow pool left A I 1 fl fesherman sherman depositing part of the dayi catch in a riched in coral pool on a small island where the sponges will r emain soa A essau ng until the fleet returns to tito british colonial 4 government is experimenting in 4 planting of sponge beds there 4 4 1 are three varieties silk sponge wool and common type most 1 ly gener a lly used in north amer ica when the fleet set out A from nassau it usually remains M q Y ai J awa y for two weeks to a month A 4 A A saz 4 fi ap V aw 74 x vy N I 1 4 4 i when fishermen fisher nien have secured a catch they return to nassau sponges are dried out and placed on sale at an auction similar to a southern tobacco auctioning auction in the united states actual lr trying ng process is shown above sponges are buried under weeds and Z straw to dry out in the sun since the unique sponge can be classed neither with the meta zoa soa or the protozoa many zoologists place it in a special sub kinf dorn known as sponges sponge may rane range in size from a pins head to masses several feet high and vary in weight from a yam grain to more than pounds ng M WA h p A I 1 A |