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Deepsea Fisherman's Life One Of Monotonous Job Repetition
Ry A. €C. HOLMAN
THe sea has for me, like most Yslagders, always held a cer-| tain,,degree of my interest. The only;time IT was on the water for y length of time was one might I spent in a small sail boat sdrifting dqwn the North- umberland Strait after the -wind | had died out. So when the op- | portunity arrived for me to|
take an extended cruise on one|her boats visible and for the nothing much to do for the rest of the trawlers sailing out of |first time in my life I was atjof the morning. . The weather, Georgetown, I jumped at the|sea beyond the sight of any |was a bit colder and the seas a \land, but before I could let my little rougher.
chance.
I didn’t know how long the voyage would take, but I expec- | ted it to be about a week or, more The scurrying around | for clothing, finding my came-!| Pa, taving e prescription filled
for sea-sickness pills was, I am}
sure,tinequalied by any sailor gothg to sea for a year or more. The, number of articles of| elpitjag I had that were manw- | factured in Truro would have satisfied any self- _ respecting | artic explorer. for at least three | years. Socks, I had enough to} keep a platoon on winter man- | ouvers for a week. I was also) ever supplied with woolen shirts | woolen sweaters, oil skins- and goodness knows what all.
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one of my seasick pills in my mouth end in addition to keep- ing my stomach in order I[ found they made me quite drow: | sy so I slept like an innocent! babe, not waking until well af-| ter eight Friday morning.
The seas were quite calm on Friday, only slight swells giv-| ing the boat a gentle roll from | side to side. There were no ot- |
mind dwell for any. length of time on this business of being! beyond swimming distance from shore, my stomach started to demand I do something to fill \the viod located there. i | Down in the galley in the fo’- castle Edmond Chaisson gave me a wonderful feed of bacon and eggs. After breakfast | there was nothing much to do, | look out at a vacant sea, chat / idlely with the crew (this being slightly difficult because of the! language problem) and read or) sleep. Dinner was at 11:30, as) this was Friday there was fish| on the menu, salt and mounds of potatoes.
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ticipate in, poker ts the same in any language, the name might be different, but an ace till looks like an ace. «
We arrived off Cape Breton shortly after sunrise and the net was set. The.net usually’ fs left out for two and a to three hours before be- ing pulled. After the net is out everyone lounges around . with
SPIDER CRABS The net is drawn and set
'$"The Guardian, Charlottetown, Fri. Dec. 3, 1965.
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SETTING THE TRAWL NET
Island News Page Special-Purpose Freight Cars Spark Big Railway Investment —
ROLLING ON THE GENTLE
MONTREAL (OP)—The boom | Orders for piggyback cars are |share of the total freight mar- | in special-purpose freight cars “also up to meet increased traf- ket. Trains appear to be gaining
is pacing Canada's railways to fic between major cities. new freight orders slightly
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Floods Threaten Many In Malaya
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) Six thousand people were being evacuated from inhabited areas
‘along Malaya's east coast fol-
lowing torrential monsoon. rains which swept south Thursday from Viet Nam.
Another 100,000 people were in danger, police said. So far two
throughout the day with regu- lar monotony. Cod, flounder and hake are in every catch also quite @ number of spider crabs. This is the first time I have seen one. Their bodies are some fouror five in- ches in diameter and almost a perfect circle, they have eight legs and: two claws. The legs would be nearly a foot long and slightly thicker than your index
The weather was getting pro- day and
But never mind, I somehow feature found at every meal ex- Cheticamp for the night. We ar- |
@athered everything together |
and was off to Georgetown and | About two o'clock we put the ashore for a few minutes, more | |huge trawl net out for the first to walk on solid ground than for
thetice to sea, I thought. On arriving in Georgetown |
on a Tuesday night I learned the trawl and bring it in I will |returned C | that the boats wouldn't be sail- deal with in another article.) It cook had boiled the legs of some | was only set for a few minutes of the spider crabs and we had
ing that night as the weather was bad. The next day I was assigned to the Gulf Gull, a 96 foot stern trawler operated by Garden Foods Ltd.
IT was surprised to find the erew was made up of French- epeaking New Brunswickers, all from Shippegan. -Island,-in- the-north eastern corner of our
province.
FEW WITH ENGLISH T went aboard and met the Captain, Onescphor Guignard, who did not speak English. In fact, only two of the nine men in the crew.spoke— any amount ‘of English, though most of them understood it; This was fo play 4 big factor in my voy- age; but 1 didn’t realize it at the time | ' After 1 had met the captain & had a talk with the chief en- gineer and I Jearned we were be- ing-heid up partially because of the weather but mainly due to the fact that the shaft in the scotmpressor had: broken: The compressor is used to start the big diesel engine which powers boat. It also operates the
igches on the trawler. } We were waiting for a replace. og shaft to come from Tore ) When a sister ship, The Hotse Bay, came in from the
cept breakfast.
time. (The business of setting
when it was capght on the bot- tom, in it camé and was imme- diately reset.
The weather was getting a lit- tle colder and the seas were be- ginning to get to me slightly, I took another pill and lay down | for awhile: as “there “was nothing to do or see until the trawl was to be pulled in around four, 1 | dozed off. : |
I was awakened by the cap- | tain blowing the ship’s horn eal- | ling the crew to pull in the trawl, 1 went down to watch this operation, we got about 20 | boxes of fish. Each box holds | ‘nearly 100 pounds, so the total catch for just two hours was some 2,000 pounds. It was ail |
| cod and flounder. The cod is
gutted before being packed in| ice and boxed in the hold and | after this was done we went for supper. The trawl had been re- set as soon as the fish were em- | ptied from it.
In the middle of supper the horn went again calling the crew to pull the trawl. Once| again it had fouled on the bot- tom. When it was brought on board this time it was discover- ed there were two or three lar- ge gashes in the net, each about 16 or 20 feet long. |
shing grounds It takes about hours to unload and repro. | Vision these ships and it was de. eided that the compressor from | Howe Bay would be trans- . fered to the Gulf Gull. and we) could get to sea. The replace- would be put in the Howe f when it came in. 1 : Thursday’ night about 11:30 @e'set sail. We were bound for ¢he' Bradell Banks, about 12 or miles west-north-west of the. Sandaien Islands: It was ex. | to'take us about 14 hours
teach the fishing grounds. t I,stood on the bridge and wat- ¢hed’ Georgetown and the lights the harbour fade into the dis- | Shortly after we cleared rbour I could see the big, | ey light coming from the. is lighthouse off to my left, |
We were
nly boat in the Strait that | I bunked down for the) about one o'clock. PT LIKE BABY |
» was nothing but darkness those fishing grounds be seen on the right. 91
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Everyone on the crew pitch- ed in to help mend the net. | Needles and thending twine were brought from the store room. Those who did not know the art of mending a net held the net up for those who did. O re of the crew members went to bri- dge and. relieved the captain | who came and assisted in the mending operation. He was, without question,‘ the fastest of anyone on the crew with a need- | le, After some two hours of | steady work the net was re- Paired and ready to go.
It was learned while we were mending the net that the cap- | tain had heard on the radio that the fishing off the northern tip
jof Cape Breton Island was very |council last: night voted to en-
course for | gage former town policeman Al-
before he |lison Grover and Roy Biggar as
had come down to the deck to | police officers for the town with | We ‘the council appointing Mr. “Gro-
there until; ver in charge of the two-man
force.
good and he had. set
were not to arrive ning. During. the evening a card’
Not knowing what lay out- game started in the galley and/| in Friday anc will use a room in
@ide the, harbour mouth I had a number of the cr
a of popping | This was somethin ’
| There was by this time nothing
ew joined in. | the post office buildings for po- g 1 could par- lice headquarters.
rived there about 11:00 I went |
any other reason, and when I the captain and the
a feast. The spider crab tasted much like lobster, but the meat is much stringier and the fia- vour a little blander.
Everyone slept-in the next day and after lunch we went back to the fishing grounds. i
By two o'clock in- the after- noon we were. back fishing.
new for me to see, once I had watched the net being raised | and lowered for the first time, |
jeverytime after that was just | Merside, charged with failing to
more of the same.
We fished all Sunday, Sunday night, all day Monday, Monday night and sometime in the early hours of Tuesday morning the worsening weather, (during the | night the winds had reached 45 | and 50 miles an hour) had made | the captain decide we had bet-|
‘ter go back to the shelter of ficient equipment on a vehicle
Cheticamp. ‘
When I awoke fate Tuesday morning we were about five mi- les from Cheticamp Harbour | and as soon as I saw it I made | up my mind that I would leave | the ship when we docked.
The harbour was full of fish- ing vessels from the seas as the weather department had gale warnings out It took us some- time to find a berth but as soon as-we did twas over the rail | and on my way back to the Ié | land, by road.
It was not the weather that got me. though I was never sick I must say it did’ make things uncomfortable, it was the sheer boredom of the “life that made me want to get back. The re- petition of the work, coupled with the language problem I'd run into convinced me I could do little or no more good by staying on. :
Council Names | Police Officers.
GEORGETOWN — Town
The two officers will be sworn
§ a their biggest investment in roll- Whether carried in highway (faster than trucks, | persons were reported drowned. A ing stock since : trailers strapped to flat cars, or| Among the main reasons for, There were indications that Quietly; both’ Canadian Pa- {in container: lifted off a truck, | the trend, they report, are new | the entire east coast was cut off cific and Canadian National are |much of this traffic is won di-|studies by industry to $ave | from’ the rest of the country by > setting out on what amounts to rectly from highway transport. |'money on distribution bags,/the washout of bridges and : a freight car revolution. oe Last year CNR reported a 30- boxes and — see Biving | roads. SUMMERSIDE — Arthur Gor- {lice constable Vernon Reeves, the bulk of both fleets is per-cent increase in piggyback |way to transport in or i0| The government ordered the Andrews, Freetown, was re- | William , Manager of the common boxcar—some are tonnage over 1963. CPR loadings containers sopplied by the rail- | in th Geass in the custody of the su- |the Kensington Legion, and Clar- as much as 50 years old—new |rose from 140,000 trailers to |ways. ee ee ee perintendent of Riverside Ho-|ence Campbell of Spring Valley orders are concentrated on spe- | 160,000. They said technical advances 44 sema Rak—to be blasted spital till Dec. 30 by order of| Olifford James Gallant, cial purpose cars designed to do | CNR this year has ordered |have mainly favored trucking in wider by dynamite, This was ex- (Magistrate W. Chester S. Mac- |Georgetown, and Gerald Frank- one job well. : | 400 piggyback cars to add to its jthe last three decades. But pected to let river water escape Donald in County Court here |lin O’Brien, St. Eleanors, were This year it is estimated they |existing fleet of about 800. [t is highway weight limits seemed faster and curtail up-river flood- yesterday. each fined $75 plus costs or 15 wit spend $150,000,000 i items Fenee ones 850 — “ COM- to be near = — and ing ; Gallant fot impaired driv- such as ore cars, a cars, er flatcars. as an truckers co’ no expect ” an cual wand pe eee ee ‘ag. O'Brien for care and con- woodchip cars, gondolas, hop- other 285 piggyback cars com- to make productivity gains by| Army and air force units were William Andrews, 73,“in Free- |trol of a motor vehicle while im- pers and trailer flat cars. \dng to add to its fleet of 1,300. ‘buying bigger equipment. - {being used in rescue operations. to or 2%. He will appear be- |paired. : Between them this year the | Other signs of specialization, oth lines say they are giving | ww ike S istrat here on Dec A North-Tryon man was fined two major railroads have or- are CPR’s orders for 1,400 cov- | more thought now to planned a ee eee *|$90 plus costs or 15 days for un- dered more than 5,000 oe ee hopper cars, designed t® expansion of freight services. Fuel : lawful possession of liquor cars. <. carry atchewan potash and They hope smoo' Donald Maclean, Summer-|", speeding Cee. against’ CNR is the heaviest buyer. |other dry bulk goods; for 150 gow of pol lag cg Bn ion ; \T Stove rar’ given seven daye 10 jail for |2emes, Kennedy, \Summerside, By October it had ealled for al- |mechanical refrigerator ¢ ar 8| manufacturers. SHELL} ‘oj, ve i was to Dec. 7 for most 3,500 units, Recent orders | @ new design; and for) Rail @lficiais warn. how! ooo . na — reading of the trial transcript rm aa ae om worth $8,500,- Sires boxcars designed for | eyer a mae tobe, of orders MI / Burner ington : end a ision, St. Eleanors po- | ught orders up to | au 8. loan ‘ testified for the Crown in the |months. : ‘s orders year in- incre Shi case. This compares with $50,000, clude 245 100-ton ore cars, 245 of eet oc oe S A complete stock of Tree pments The impaired driving charge ee ae a of ieee and oy |S wood chip cars for the stagnate, there would be littl favre ante wt hao against Nelson Leo Gaudet. Tig- ,000, tb ip and -paper industry ‘and 600/| fi t. Now Underway [tin %cas adjourned to Dec 15| OPR's spending has also shot |heated and” ‘insulated’ bosesrs eet {oF new equipmen retract tek pt ny ‘ for reading of the trial trans. up. It was at a low of $8,750,000 designed to protect goods from| DISHES TAKE TIME . 6k Some 30,000 to 40,000 Christ-|cript at the request of defence in 1963. An estimated $39,000,000 | severe outside temperatures. || = : mas trees are to be |counsel Bernard McCabe. Al- |was*planned for this year but| Each line has also ordered Clearing the table and wash-| J W Skinner shipped trom P.E.I. this year. |berton ROMP Cpl. E. McCue President R. A. Emerson said |600 boxcars. ing dishes takes at least an. wee Frank Gaudet, provincial for- |prosecuted the case while Ed- cently freight car purchases) Railway officials. have te hour’a day of each housewife\s| ‘Dial 4-4044 officer, said yesterday.|ward Gaudet, St. Louis, and alone will reach $50,000,000 this |ported @ slight upturn in the time, or more than 45 working | Thi . is agape oo Henry McCallum testified for year. |Iast two years in the industry's ‘days yearly. eee i , Stee: Surgeat’ shigger at Kile Coreen NEW TYPES MAKE DEBUT- e : ° - # Saeko Aacood generation a dns Age Bahl ON O° Sy See Baas JL of 8. Potie’s whe helps aes Court Handles locomotives is also making its 9 eo he ! dna’ 6 ; ® @ | the Montreal market. debut this year. ONR’s 30 new ‘ Mr. Gaudet stated that P.E.T. Light Docket i are ae 2 - = trees are also shipped in quant- real locomotive a { ‘ : : N i j nee England and There was a light docket tn = Materg, dese of Sete For the last few years the |City P =, To Sie ae In cen = =o most popular tree exported has Magistrate A.J. , ’|32 high speed is from been the Balsam Fir. It’s popu- | Presided. ldiesel, worth $11,000,000. It is of ® larity is due to the fact that it}, Douglas Joseph Strickland, |ajso trading in old machines to can on the average withstand | Marshfield, charged with the Montreal Locomotive and GM } 6 70 degrees of heat. P.E.1. also | Possession of stolen articles. and buying another 60 road- has a very good market for | Valued at less than $50, was re- switcher locomotives, ae ae White Spruce which is used | ™anded without bail to Dec. 6. | ‘These are the first major loco Ve largely as an outdoor ‘decoration.| A city resident received 4 20- motive orders since the two ® |day suspended sentence for be- jines completed their switch .to | ’ ing drunk and incapable. |all-diesel operation in 1960. . | Failed To Report, | 4 Bonshaw resident, charzed Vi i ’ \ with the illegal possession of OM TAYLORS liquor,,,was assessed $20 and | Given $50 Fine _|Havr, sas, to | Joseph Francis Dennis, City, | VISITS BEIRUT charged with failing to report} peIRUT, Lebanon (AP) | an accident was fined $50 and | president Edward Ochab of Po- | costs or 15 days by Justice of |jand arrived here Thursday for the Peace Albert Dinnis in Traf-/|@ 24 hour private visit. 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