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1 1981 SPARKES 187 If the skipper owned more than one trap, he would sign on a crew of sharemen. 1986 SAUNDERS 74 Most Gander Bay men were away to work, either on the Exploits main drive if it was in the spring, or a shareman on a codtrap crew down Change Islands way, or in the lumberwoods cutting pulp for the A.N.D. Company. 1987 POWELL 29 I had two sharemen as crew members during my first summer fishing on my own. Shareman was the name used when I first started and the name has not changed today. If the fish that was caught and sold was worth $100.00, the amount was cut in half, one for expenses, the other shared equally between the skipper and the sharemen. So in the case of a skipper and two sharemen, they each received $16.75 out of each hundred dollars.
