Large group of children sit on the edge of the municipal pier in Stuart fishing as they participate in the Alben W. Barkley Catfish Tournament held in the first two weeks of February 1950.
Piles of turtles on their backs on a boat and on dock. Caption: "The only cannery green turtle soup in the United States is in Key West, and its products are exported all over the world wherever epicures congregate. The turtles weighing 300 to 400 pounds are caught in South American waters and penned in 'crawls' and they gaze with stoic calm at the strange people who come to look at them."
Crowd of people watch a large turtle being slid up a wooden ramp from a pen in the water. Caption on back: "Crawls for hundreds of giant turtles are interesting attractions. Some of these weigh almost 300 pounds." Turtle crawls, or kraals, were large saltwater holding pens, which were open for tourists to view in the 1950s.
