| Summary: | 1973 : the start -- Forty million for boatbuilding -- Marine Service Stations to be erected -- Approved boat yards -- Fisheries Loan Board undergoing major changes -- Effects of Loan Board regulations on boatbuilding industry -- Problems of inspection -- The problems and people in the boatbuilding industry -- Turning points in the fishery -- The question of longliners -- Boatbuilding and its future -- The longliner at sea -- The longliner lying up -- From blueberries to pleasure boats -- Barnes Boatyard and Repair Shop -- Round n’ about -- Cartwright -- Witless Bay -- Dildo -- Fogo Island -- Trinity -- Green’s Harbour -- Rocky Harbour -- Twillingate -- Placentia -- Port Union -- Admiral’s Beach -- St. Anthony -- Clarenville -- Port au Choix -- Nipper’s Harbour -- Little Bay Islands -- Longliners : the fishermen’s views -- The boatbuilding shop -- Southcoast trapskiff builders -- Just one of many boats -- Trapskiff terms -- The boys from petty Harbour -- The versatile boatbuilder -- Marystown Shipyard (part I) -- Introduction to Keith Slater -- Building in ferro-cement : the wooden frame method -- Propeller damage. 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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