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John Collier Jr. - Photographer, Digby County

Scalloping off Digby in the Bay of Fundy. This sea monster came up from the floor of the Bay with a drag full of scallops. Natives call him a "ballast fish" for they say he fills himself with rocks during turbulent storms to hold himself to his ocean floo

Photographer: John Collier Jr.

Reference: Alexander H. Leighton Nova Scotia Archives 1988-413 negative number 4601-d

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