Walsh, Marguerite; Ryan, Jacquey; Interview with Marguerite Walsh

• Main Author: Jacquey Ryan
• Format: Still Image
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Work; Fishers; Fishing; Fishes; Commercial fishing; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_avalon/id/5668

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 - ...