Decks Awash, vol. 01, no. 06 (February 1971)

• Other Authors: Cochran, Garth; Kelland, Otto P.; Martin, Mike; O’Keefe, Thomas V.; Roberts, Dan G.; Sinclair, Robert; Strackan, Ian; Toms, Bert
• Format: Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Memorial University Extension Service 1971
• Subjects: Fisheries > Newfoundland and Labrador; Rural development > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland and Labrador > Social life and customs; Newfoundland and Labrador > Social conditions; Newfoundland and Labrador > Periodicals; Newfoundland; Newfoundland studies
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns_decks/id/2524

The role of co-operatives in Fisheries Industry -- Brig Bay Producers Co-operative -- Dildo Feed Co-operative converted -- 20 years of involvement in co-operatives -- Role of government in co-operative movement -- Manager of Port-au-Port Co-op resigns -- Port-au-Port Co-operative Annual Meeting -- An open letter by Dan Roberts -- Fogo Island Producers Co-operative and Shipyard -- Fogo Island workshops -- The Lawn producers Co-operative Society -- Round ‘n About -- The Placentia Area Development Association -- Explosive outlawed in herring fishery -- Restriction on Fortune Bay herring fishing -- Increased production of pickled herring -- “Closing lines” announced by Fisheries Minister -- Total seafish landings down in 1970 -- The fisherman as a businessman -- Invest in a tuna canning factory, anyone? -- Department of Fisheries changes seal hunt licences -- Fisheries College conducts travelling schools -- Course conducted for engineers at Churchill Falls -- Decline [in] Labrador inshore fishery due to foreign fleets -- Communication needs for the Labrador coast -- New Extension representative for Coastal Labrador -- TV programs to be screened on Labrador Coast -- French-speaking group active on West Coast -- National Parks Service Scholarship to be awarded -- News from Extension -- our vanishing fishermen : a poem -- Films available from Extension Service on co-operatives. Frequency: irregular, vol. 1 - vol. 2, no. 3 (1968-73); bimonthly, vol. 2, no. 4 - vol. 22, no. 2 (1973-93); not published March-October 1982, May-July 1991. The first publication entitled Decks Awash was a 1964-65 newsletter summarizing the content of the Memorial University Extension Service television program of the same name (1964-77). Between 1968-93 a new Decks Awash journal was published independent of the show, covering topics of interest to both fishermen and rural Newfoundlanders, including fisheries equipment and policy, agricultural development and community profiles. (Catherine F. Horan, "Decks Awash," Encyclopedia of ...