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Please enjoy a few photographs from the Karuza fishing family album.

 The fishing vessel "Vis" (rhymes with fleece) is named for the island of Vis in Croatia (the former Yugoslavia) from where our family--and many other fishing families--emigrated to the U.S. at the turn of the century.

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Grandpa John Karuza in about 1943.

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Four of five Karuza brothers on deck, commercial fishermen all (picture 1950s).

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Great-grandpa Nikola Karuza fished on the original F/V Vis (the name is hard to read, but it's there).

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Current family fishing vessel, F/V Vis (built in 1990).
 
(Photo by Brett Bardwell)

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From the 1940s, the family fishing vessel Shushartie (run by Great grandpa Nikola Karuza).

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Grandpa John at the wheel of the F/V Comet in 1956 (Jim Costanti was a partner in the Comet).

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Grandpa John bought the F/V Tagattof  in the 1950s.

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Grandpa John Karuza rowing a skiff in about 1929 (18 years old).



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