| Summary: | Tales of the Labrador -- “A mighty queer looking tuna!” -- Ghost fishing -- The crab fishery -- Transportation special -- Cultural Olympics -- Round ‘n about -- Gros Morne Park -- “Newfoundland scoff” -- Women’s world -- Craft corner -- The last word is yours. "Transportation" (cover). -- 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 Newfoundland and Labrador, vol. 1, 605.)
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