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Flensing sturgeon in Kamouraska

Black and white photograph of two men flensing a sturgeon. Centre: man with a tool working on the long fish. Left: man looking at the camera. Right: child near a wooden cart. Outdoors, building and metal bucket in the foreground on the right.

Archives de la Côte-du-Sud, Joseph-Napoléon Dumont Collection.

Fish were flensed mainly by hand in the early 20th century. Workers used sharp knives to remove the heads, tails, and fins of fish and to gut them. They were often highly skilled.