Tag Archives: Land & Sea
A cod quality experiment in Bonavista: From 1984, how longliners were trying to improve fish quality
In 1985, Newfoundland and Labrador’s government brought in fish quality regulations that applied across the province. But a year earlier, those regulations were being put into place in Bonavista — sometimes successfully, sometimes controversially. That experiment was the focus of this 1984 archival episode of Land & Sea, which you can view below. Those rules — which included stipulations on how fish would be processed at sea and a grading system — were meant to improve the quality, and therefore the price, of fish caught off the province’s shores. Similar quality regulations had been in place in Iceland and Norway in the 1920s. Video’s, >click to read< 13:19
Land & Sea: Wooden vs. Steel Longliners – Take a trip back in time with an archival episode from 1980
This 1980 episode of Land & Sea opens with the scene of a champagne bottle exploding on the bow of a new longliner. The show explores the tension surrounding wooden and steel-hulled longliners at a time when boatbuilding design was evolving to match new fishing technology. Owner Charles Hussey of Port de Grave isn’t bothered by the $500,000 price tag for his new, wooden, 17-metre vessel, the Eastern Harvester, built in Arthur Petten’s boat yard in South River.,,, The Land & Sea crew went south in this episode to Bayou la Batre, the headquarters for steel-hulled boat building. Video, click here to read the story 20:31
Video – Land & Sea archival moment – 1960s Schooners
Land & Sea is celebrating 50 years on the air this season. Schooners from the 1960s – Take a look back at what life was like on fishing schooners that fished on the Labrador every summer. In this 1960s Land & Sea archival footage, we get a sense of the lives of these hard working fishermen. Watch the video here 10:53
