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   2 Attrib, comb ~ berth, ~ establishment, ~ ground, ~ post, ~ premises, ~ room, ~ salt, ~ schooner, ~ season, ~ settlement: SETTLEMENT, ~ ship, ~ stage, ~ station, ~ vessel.
   1986 Evening Telegram 2 Aug, p. 12 Some fishermen have removed traps from famous fishing berths and taken them to the other side of Bonavista Bay in the Newman's Cove-Blackhead area west of Bonavista where Fishing is a little better. [1833] 1984 BAYFIELD i, 257 Observed fishing establishments all the way from Black Bay to Forteau and many schooners at anchor. 1985 Evening Telegram 7 Sep, p. 13 Bad weather is a major problem with inshore fishermen only being able to get to the fishing grounds two or three times a week. 1990 ibid 4 Jan, p. 4 I would like to comment on a statement...about the trawlers destroying the fishing grounds. 1987 POWELL 76 He knew the ones who had the most fish and the ones who stayed the longest on the fishing grounds. By doing this he knew the hard workers and was ready to help them in any way. 1977 WHITELEY 34 It is not known how Bossy Whiteley acquired the fishing post at Bonne Espérance. 1987 POOLE 14 Driven by the Great Depression and the need to fix up his fishing premises, he had set out to spend one last winter on the Labrador. 1987 Evening Telegram 4 July, p. 56 They took it all in the vessel the next spring and put it together on their fishing rooms on the two [Labrador] islands. 1987 POWELL 34 From this high hill I could see my little house beneath me, my store, stage and wharf and one little boat moored just off the stage. I was proud of my fishing room; it was all I owned. ibid 96 My store was almost full of fishing salt, leaving little room to handle anything else. [1847] 1986 BAYFIELD ii, 325 This morning [in Trepassey] we counted 65 Sail of small fishing schooners, from 25 to 30 Tons each. 1987 POOLE 58 A fishing schooner in the harbour just down from where we were belonged to a first cousin of mine. 1988 GOSSE 47 These fishing rooms formed a temporary settlement in most sheltered harbours and coves along the Labrador coast. Supplied by merchants in Conception and Trinity Bays, they were only occupied during the fishing season. 1880 Canadian Illustrated News 29 May [caption] Cape Ray...A fishing settlement and signal station. 1986 RYAN 32 These men, called bye boat keepers, left their boats in Newfoundland during the winter and found transportation for themselves and their crews to and from Newfoundland on the fishing ships. 1987 KING (ed) 111 "Resettlement": Empty houses/and broken windows,/Fields unattended and overgrown/because of forced/evacuation. A fishing stage/stands bitter/against the elements. [1925] 1986 Them Days xi (4), 8 The nets were stored in separate bunks on each side of the loft and each bunk had the name of the fishing station in elegant script carved and painted on a board over the door. 1982 JACKSON 45 The winter site offered lumber and fuel, and every man's chief occupation in the spring was to cut and haul wood to his summer fishing station. 1986 Evening Telegram 1 Feb, p. 4 Five residents of Burnt Islands were on the fishing vessel June Bernice when it ran aground and sank 2.5 miles from the community in May of 1984.

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