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Cod fishing on the Newfoundland Banks. Cod fishing in Newfoundland was carried out at a subsistence level for centuries, but large scale fishing began shortly after the European arrival in the North American continent in 1492, with the waters being found to be preternaturally plentiful, and ended after intense overfishing with the collapse of the fisheries in 1992.
The four one-hour episodes follow two families as they return to a lost way of life in a remote fishing village in Hay Cove, Newfoundland. In simple wooden homes with only the tools, clothing, and supplies of 1937, five adults and five children lived under a mercantile system and needed to rely on cod fishing for their sustenance and survival.
Sealing was a type of fishery that involved getting a berth or "ticket" on a ship that traveled to ice floes near Newfoundland and Labrador. Teams would then be sent out onto the ice to kill seals . This used to be done with a tool called a gaff hook but is now performed with a large club.
The Banks dory, or Grand Banks dory, is a type of dory.They were used as traditional fishing boats from the 1850s on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. [1] The Banks dory is a small, open, narrow, flat-bottomed and slab-sided boat with a particularly narrow transom.
Typical outport transportation in La Poile Bay, Newfoundland Outports were established for curing fresh fish to dried cod This 1922 photo taken in Norway illustrates the fish drying procedure. Some Newfoundland outport fishing stages remained in 1971, after fresh fish markets had reduced the need for the drying platforms.
The activity of these two firms at Battle Harbour serve as an accurate microcosm of the history of Newfoundland and Labrador's fishery over almost two centuries. In 1955 Baine, Johnston and Company Ltd. sold the premises to The Earle Freighting Service Ltd. who continued the site's operation until the decline in the inshore fishery at the start ...
A rodney anchored off the shores of Twillingate, Newfoundland. A rodney or punt is a small Newfoundland wooden boat typically used by one man for hook and line fishing, for squid jigging, for travelling settlement to settlement, to shop, or to get out to their powered fishing boats. [1]
A fishing stage is a wooden vernacular building, typical of the rough traditional buildings associated with the cod fishery in Newfoundland, Canada. Stages are located at the water's edge or "landwash", and consist of an elevated platform on the shore with working tables and sheds at which fish are landed and processed for salting and drying.