banking vessels

• 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/9015

banking The fishery is divded in two seasons : that on the shore, or the shore season, commences about the 20th of [i]April[i], and ends about the 10th of [i]October[i] the boats fish in from four to twenty fathoms water. The most important, the bank-fishing season, begins the 10th of [i]May[i], and continues till the last of [i]September[i], and carried on in thirty to forty-five fathoms depth of water. Banking vessels have failed from [i]St. John's[i] to the bank as easrly as the 12th of [i]April[i]. At first they use pork or birds for bait; but as they catch fish, they supply themselves with a shell fish called [i]clams[i], which is found in the belly of the cod. The next bait is the lobster after that, the herring, and the launce, [i]Br. Zool.[i] III. No. 66, which left till [i]June[i], when the capelan comes on the coast, and is ano- ther bait. In [i]August[i] the [i]squid[i] comes into use, and finally the herring again. The greatest number of cod-fish taken by a single fisherman in the season, has been twelve thousand but the average is seven thousand. The largest fish which has been taken was four feet three inches long, and weighed forty-six pounds. A banking vessel of ten thousand fish ought to be filled in three weeks, and fo in proportion and eighty quintals (112lb. each) for a boat in the same time. In 1785, five hundred and forty-one [i]English[i] vessels fished on the bank a number exceeding that of the [i]French[i]. PRINTED ITEM AUG 1978 W Kirwin AUG 1978 JH Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Not used the letter "s" is represented by a letter looking almost like an "f". For the purposes of transcription I have entered the modern "s" in it's place.