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Th e wood chips fly as Edward Bl ak e , a Birch]' B ay ar ea sewmttler, sends the saw whining through a stick. In this issue Introduction Front section ; I n~ ·ihis: issue. Decks Awash ' looks "'01.the troubled sawmill industry. We talk with Fogo Island sawmillers about the problems they fac e. and take a look at a couple of groups who are trying fisheries conference 2 to solve some of those difficulties. We talk to civil Green Bay fisheries servants about the state of the forest resource, committee reorganized 3 and review the thinking for the future. We spend Always a Whelan 4 some time with the Department of forestry and agriculture's field staff. finding out what they do and what they think about things. In our back and front section we visit Fogo again, plan for spring gardening and bottle a few moose. In our April Issue. Decks Awash will be visiting the area of Bonavista. Special section The history 9 The sawmill operators Decks Awash is a bi-monthly magazine for and planers 18 people in Newfoundland and Labrador, about The lumber dealers 23 rural Newfoundland and rural Newfoun The organizations 26 dlanders. Information rather than news orien ted, Dedt. AWalh is based on th e principal that The provincial departme nt information is vital to the development of people offorestry 32 and communities. Each issue contains a The federal Department "Special Section" which alternatively concerns offorestry 46 itself with geographical areas and resources of Education 47 the province. The " F ront and Back Section" contains information about the fisheries, The future 48 agriculture. consumer items, crafts, historical Editorial. 50 events and interesting people. Editor: Susan Sherk Researcher Writer: Rick Hayes Researcher: Sally Lou LeMessurier Production Supervisor: Janet Oliver Subscription and Circulation: Hazel Harris Back section Photography: Susan Sherk, Rick Hayes, ETV Photography Artwork: Carmen Von Richthofen and Ian Stewart The Mysterious Adventures Layout and Printing: Robinson Blackmore of Anthony Murphy 51 Printing and Publishing Company, St. John's. Botulism and Nfld. home canning 54 How to bottle a moose 56 For a free SUbscription if you live in Eating more fish 57 Newfoundland and Labrador, please write to Cuddles and her codpeace 59 Deeo Awash magazine, Memorial University Extension Service. St. John's, A1C 5S7. The arguin' ground 61 Telephone (709) 753-1200. Ext. 3484. For those Readership survey . : 62 living on the Mainland and abroad, a sub The last word 63 scription at $6.00 per year is available from the above address. Cheques should be made payable to Memorial University of Newfoundland, Ex tension Service: Attention: Susan Sherk. 2-Decks Awash Fogo Island Fisheries Conference " Conferences like th ese are all species in th e past three wa s grim, a me eting was held . promoted by the gr ass roots years have been about 18 million Six hund red dollars was people to look at problems which pounds," stated Eugene, " with a collected and with this se ed are often created by the ones landed value of $2 million and an money residen ts were a ble to who make policies," said Stan average annual payroll of over develop a shipyard a nd a Kinden, the chairman of one half a million dollars." He thrivin g co-op . The rest is session at the Fogo Island e m pha sized th at the quality wa s his tory. Fisheries Conference which was th e fin est with over 90% of th e held January 11 and 18 on Fogo product bein g gra ded as number A littl e more than a year ag o, Island. "The resource people one . As fa r as sa lt fish th e Board of Directors of Fo go who ar e at this me eting control production wen t, no one coul d faced a noth er pro ble m ; th e th e lives of the fish ermen and beat F ogo Island's rec ord, but quality of their landed fr esh fish. thus it is important that the unfortunatel y, the ir fr esh The director s went to S1. J ohn's fishermen have a chance to talk production was ca using a nd met with th e government with them and the resource problems. who s aid " how mu ch ca n you put people have an opportunity to In addition to turbot bruising into it?" Th e di rector s went listen to the people of Fogo ." easily, the fish suffered by being ba ck to Fogo and asked "for $200 To further illustrate this pOlnt; trucked to Fog o, onto a ferry a hea d." So far this yea r," Mr. Kinden told a story to the and then over to the Fishery sta tes a proud Pie rce Wells , "we conference participants about Products Twillingate plant. Said ha ve collected $100,000 in share the Senate Committee on Eugene." During the last 10 capit al on th a t $200. A few week s Poverty which met on Fogo years. the Fogo Island Co-op ha s a go th e loa n for $600,000 was Island several years ago. The lost at least a million dollars approved. We had a grant fro m residents submitted a proposal worth of fish in direct dumpage DREE of $120,000, rural to the committee for a $2 million or quality deterioration." Ac dev elop ment for $160.000 and multi-purpose fresh fish facility. cording to Eugene. a fresh fish Ca na da Works for $200,000." But The people of Fogo told the freezing plant was a necessity. it was Pierce 's next poi nt which committee that they could Pierce Wells , the president of was the importa nt one. " F ish guarantee that su ch a facility the co-op , took over from there compan ies th roughout would help the island over come and explained just how much Newfoun dl a nd get gr ants and more poverty than Come by Fogo Islanders had put into the Fogo Isl an d ge ts th ei r grants . Chance with all its millions. Stan development of Fogo them but what is put on Fogo Isl and is concluded his story by saying selves. Ten years ago when the not for pr ivate ente rprise, it is "Fogo Island didn't get its fish island had little and its future for th e people of Fog o Isl and. plant, but it still managed to survive and thrive and Come by Chance has gone under." His story illustrated perhaps best of all the underlying point of the Fogo conference wbich was sponsored by the Fogo Island Imprpvement Committee. the Co-op , Memorial's Extension Service and Secretary of State. While it was important to discuss the many problems in the fisberies. it was also a chance for people outside of Fogo to fully understand just what this small island has ac complished in the face of in credible odds. At the conference, Eugene Collins. manager at the Fogo Island Co-op explained how it was set up and talked about just how much the co-op meant to the Fred Earle introduces provinci al fis hery panelist s at th e F ogo island." The average landings of Conference. Deck s A w ash ~3 They own their share in it." very thankful for the co Pierce made another very Pierce concluded by saying, "I operation of government and the important point before sitting am proud to stand here today people of Fogo Island because down. "You will find a lot of new and sa y that our freezing facility they are the ones who made buildings erected on Fogo Island ha s reached stage one . 1 am things happen." for the fishery and you may ask where they came from . Most of it came from Canada Works, LIP and FLIP programs. However, don 't forget th at every other com m unity in Newfoun dland gets the same opportunity as we did . The difference is what we have done with ours. Most communitie s in Newfoundland had their money for recreation and playgrounds, etc . We want our playgrounds and recreation centres, but we have a more urgent need. We need dev elopment in our fisheries fir st. " Although Fogo Island has had its share of problems and con flicts over the years, it is the overall belief in the island's future th at has gotten them through the problem times. Never wa s thi s belief more Sandy Well, president of t he Fogo Island Development evident than at the Fogo con Association, speaks at the Conference Dinner . ference. Green Bay Fisheries Committee re-organized Blood is thicker than water, munity. But the office work , community. the saying goes, but in Wilfred long hours and problems with " I think we represent roughly Bartlett's cas e, it is the opposite. lab or began to get him down and 100 fishermen," says this very "The water is in my blood," he yearned for the days when he articulate, tall, thin fisherman says this former Lushes Bight could get back to the water and with the twinkly eyes and broad resident. " I fished when I was be more or less on his own. grin. " The re are all kinds of young, but I left Lushes Bight A couple of years ago, when boats here and mostly the boats when lobsters were selling for his children had pretty much fish 2-5 miles from shore in 12t and codfish were fetching grown up, Wilfred abandoned Notre Dame Bay," and then he only $12.00 a quintal.

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