| Summary: | Marguerite Walsh's taped interview in Witless Bay on September 24, 2014. Jacquey Ryan is the Interviewer and the topic of the interview centers around the fishery and Margueite's role as a fisherwoman. 0:00 – Intro; 0:20 Marguerite tells where she is born and mentions family; 0:51 – “Back then nobody had a lot of riches; 1:04 – Dad married her Mom; 1:17 – When Marguerite was born; 1:26 – Growing up in Burnt Cove, where Burnt Cove is; 1:40 – Dad’s second marriage to marguerite’s mother. Amount of children in family; 1:54 – Mother’s miscarriage; 2:02 – School in Burnt Cove – what it was like; 2:20 – Heating school, pot belly stove, boys brought wood; 2:48 – Lifestyle in school, walking to and from school; 2:58 – Memories of her dad coming with a slide to get them when weather was stormy in winter; 3:14 – Coming to Witless Bay, worked in fish plant and met Joey; 3:40 – Back to school the first time; 3:50 – Went to work in a nursing home in Witless Bay; 3:57 – Son James was born, hard working and raising a child; 4:14 – First mention of Cod Moratorium; 4:29 – How Moratorium affected their family; change to fishing; 5:02 – crab fishing starts; 5:17 – Marguerite gets involved in the Fishery; hard being away from son; 6:05 – Quotas and time allotted for fishing; 6:19 – Why they were given a start and end date to fish; 6:20 – Sell on crab gets soft; 6:37 – Weather was a factor; 6:43 – Up so early; 6:50 – Getting ready to go out on the water; procedure for keeping crab fresh; 7:02 – Steam out as much as 25 miles; 7:20 – Come home tired and other chores to do; 7:45 – Living arrangements; 7:57 – Length of season for fishing crab; 8:24 - Mostly crab fished, sometimes helping with other species, boning and fishing; 8:43 - Boning fish; 9:08 - Crab Fishing dropping off buoys/programming the GPS; 9:40 - Looking for their fleets, hauling traps’ 9:57 - Sound of winch would indicate amount of crab in a fleet; 10.22 - Once crab comes aboard the process that takes place; 11.05 - Keeping the crab on ice; 11:38 - Harvey Pan; 12:01 - ...
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