ship fishery

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1978
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/57282

ship n Besides dealing with the French, Governor Palliser also attempted to re-establish the English ship fishery in Newfoundland. He lamented that the colonial records '[i] it is said[i] were burned in the year 1748, so that a Governor can get no information of the ancient customs and regulations to assist him in his judgment on matters wherein the wel- fare of the fishery is concerned, most people here being incroachers and monopolizers are interested in deceiving and keeping him igno- rant."[S]42[S] Palliser excoriated unsparingly the winter inhabitants of New- foundland, complaining bitterly that they had seized almost all the fishing berths as private property, with the result that - [the ship fishery is in a manner dropped or excluded, the country crowded with poor, idle, and the most disorderly people, who are neither good fishermen nor seamen, or if they are so, are of no service to England as seamen,] they never going there and out of reach, are a nuisance to this country, being all dealers in liquor more than fish, to the great increase of idleness, debauchery, and every kind of vice and excess among the fishermen and others.[S]48[S] PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit W. Kirwin 10/78 JH 10/78 Used I and Sup Used I 2 Used I FISHING SHIP, BOAT,SERVANT�, SHAREMAN, shipp, WEST-COUNTRY(MAN),ADMIRAL'S ROOM, FISHING ~ , ROOM, ship(s) room, ~ fisherman/fishery/halfpenny. The source is listed as [1764] 1969 Can Hist Rev l, 152 in DNE with only part of the cited quotation on card is in DNE.