Punta Gorda Fish Co.

The fish cabins were widely used until World War II and allowed fisherman to work longer shifts without returning to port for shelter, food and supplies.

[5][10] As roads and bridges were improved after World War II, the company increasingly used refrigerated trucks to collect the area's catch, and the need for fish shacks and icehouses declined.

[4][10] Download coordinates as: In the 1980s, Florida's Department of Natural Resources concluded that the old fish shacks, which lacked plumbing and sanitation, were navigation hazards and a threat to sea grasses.

[11] At least ten of the company's surviving structures, seven fish cabins and three ice houses, have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Most of these locations were added to the National Register pursuant to a 1991 Multiple Property Submission titled the "Fish Cabins of Charlotte Harbor."

[5][14] In a 2008 feature story on the area's historic fish shacks, The News-Press wrote: Commercial fishermen ... lived months at a time in simple one-story wood-frame cabins on pilings in Pine Island Sound and Charlotte Harbor.