| Summary: | skiff n At the beginning "barques" were used (the barque is about twelve or fourteen feet in the keel and carried a two man crew). Around 1890 however the fishery underwent a slump and it became in- creasingly difficult to obtain fish close to home. This caused a change in the boat type and the barque gave way to the 'big skiff' (about twenty feet in the keel and carried a four man crew). DNE-cit JH 7/72 Used I and Sup Used I 1 Used I BAITSKIFF,BOAT,ICE SKIFF,TRAP�: ~ SKIFF,skiff collar, skiff(s) crew, skiff-load, skiff-oar, skiffsail. The source is listed as M 68-3 in DNE with only part of the citation on card is listed in DNE.
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