| Summary: | "Crystal Braye and Jerome Canning speak to Mr. Billy Paul about his experience fishing with his father in a swampbottom boat from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. " "0:00:00 Billy says that swampbottoms came from dories in Shelburne and Lunenburg. They ended up in Wandsworth, where Billy grew up. 0:00:40 Billy shows Crystal and Jerome photos and paintings he has in his room. One photo is of father and dory mate. His father fished from schooners and when they were in port in Halifax they had their photos taken with their dory mate. 0:02:10 Billy shows photo of his grandfather. “I went in the woods many times with him.” Billy never saw his grandmother who was sick when he was a child. 0:02:40 Billy shows Crystal and Jerome a model dory built by his brother, Fred. Jerome comments on the design of the dory. 0:04:25 Mention Sam King in Epworth as a boat builder. 0:04:40 “I fished fifteen years in a boat like that we my dear dad. We were out in plenty of bad days. Those boats, as I remember them, were like lifeboats… They good sea boats. And that’s the reason we were out there in seventy mile winds on our trawl.” 0:06:25 “A normal days trawl would be four tubs, which would be forty lines… We’d go two hours steam from home. We’d go from Epworth to St. Lawrence… We’d get up two thirty in the morning. Black thick of fog, perhaps wind coming in on the land. Start up our make and break, a five horsepower Acadia, and steam two hours from home before we throw out our buoy… We’d be gone until three or four o’clock in the evening time.” 0:06:40 Fished trawl, nets and traps. Billy shows photo of men hauling cod trap. Billy estimates there are seventy to eighty quintals of fish. 0:07:30 Billy comments on fisheries. Says they say that gillnets and draggers spoiled the fish but Billy says it was fishing for species that cod eat that spoiled the fishery. 0:09:15 Shows photos of family. 0:09:42 Photo of his father, William Henry Paul. Billy went fishing with him. When he finished school he went to work at the fish plant in ...
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