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20/10/2006: "AUSTRALIAN ABALONE DIVING (1968) .... magazine pictures"
"Divers are being paid 40 cents per pound at Mallacoota, and an underwater goldrush has begun" by Bob Staines. Pictures by John Harding.
Forty cents per pound was for abalone meat without the shell. Today divers are paid about $50 per pound.
