Primmer, Doug, Part 2. Interview with Doug Primmer, Barr'd Islands.

• Main Authors: Pocius, Gerald L., Ferguson, Mark
• Other Authors: Primmer, Doug
• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Published: 1989
• Subjects: Work; Vernacular architecture; Cod fishing; Fish culture; Fishers; Fishes; Fishing; Commercial fishing; Fishing equipment; Knives (cutting tools); Cod; Cod filleting; Codfish; Fish processing; Fishing premises; Fishing stages; Fishing stores; Flakes; Salt cod; Split cod; Splitting knives; Splitting tables; Stageheads; Primmer; Doug; Fishery processing; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_cn/id/1008

Doug Primmer discusses flakes, stages, and fishing in Newfoundland 00:05 Overflow 00:20 The size of fish has changed 01:00 Scientists and regulations 01:45 Swab - cleaning the punt, washing fish 02:05 Handle belonging to a pump 02:15 Sound tags (?) fish tags 03:15 Helicopters chasing people 03:30 Hand bar - for carrying fish 03:45 Topics of discussion during fish cleaning 04:00 How often would you get a snubby (two or three a year) 04:35 Pounds 05:00 Twenty kettels of fish per pound (112 pounds a kettel) (kennel? kettel?) 05:35 Logistics of stage, walkway, pounds, etc. 06:20 Straps 06:50 Terms for cod fish (cod or fish) 07:10 Fishes dripping in the pounds 07:25 The smell 07:40 Planks under the longers 08:10 Rocks 08:30 Cleat (?) a foot or so long, nailed up to the rafters 09:00 They are exploring the space 09:30 Descriptions of the outside area, poles, etc. 11:00 Flakes, boughs, longers 11:20 Preparation of spruce boughs 12:10 Time table of where drying fish go 12:30 Piles and faggots 13:30 Selling to the merchants 13:45 Cart it over in the boat, all the time 14:20 Different grades of fish: number 1, number 2, number 3 15:10 Fourteen-thousand kettels one summer 15:45 Did cats or dogs get to the fish 16:10 Cutting longers, beams, boughs, etc. 16:45 Stagehead rails - taking down the stage every year 17:30 Ice and protection 18:10 Cleaning up after working 18:25 Willow broom - its use and history 19:20 Stegadome? A bar? 19:55 Use and manufacture of buckets - galvanized or wooden 20:20 Puncheons 20:55 Bark nets, bark pot, etc. 21:30 Net-mending at the store, after Christmas 22:00 Same crew, stuck together as a team, sometimes would change 22:35 More discussion of longers 23:05 "Dubber" (?) for chopping longers 23:45 Pitsaws 24:00 Who built the stage, (his dad) 24:25 Discussion of a photograph of his father 24:50 They decide to go up to the store 25:10 Platform 25:40 An old row-punt, cold tar 26:30 Part of the old house, they pass by, Old Jon Primmer's (?) house 27:15 They enter or pass by the twine store 28:00 ...