Fishing and sponges

The city of Tarpon Springs, in Florida, is well known for its large Greek population and is world famous for its sponge docks. Every day dozens of boats go out to the Gulf of Mexico to harvest natural wild sponges. These sponges are brought ashore, dried and then cut and shaped into various sizes and forms and sold in the many shops on the sponge docks. The city has been doing this for hundreds of years

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