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| Women also had a major hand in food production on most islands. In Palau and Yap they cultivated the taro that was the staple food in the past. In other islands, they did some inshore fishing as well. Here women are fishing with nets, as they did in Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosrae. |
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(photo from Air Micronesia's Islands, 1983)