'floater' fishery

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1970
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/27171

floater n The Newfoundland Labrador fishery was of two kinds, the 'stationer' fishery, and the 'floater' fishery. The first was prosecuted in small boats from the shore by families attached to fishing establishments; the second was prosecuted by the crews of the Labrador schooners, not always attached to particular shore establishments, catching their fish wherever they could get it and often taking it direct to Newfoundland ports to be cured. G. M. Story MAY 1970 JH MAY 1970 PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit Used I and Sup Used I 5 Used I