Cape Breton's Magazine

morning, from around the 20th of April till the 1st of June. We used to have this big trap, the same as the one you're talking about--mackerel traps. Exactly the same thing, except it wasn't as deep--same size. And it was off the range light on Point Ed? ward. We used to catch herring. And there used to be codfish get into that trap. Bring them back to the fish plant, and back to work at 8 in the morning. We got a hun? dred thousand pounds one day over there. And the trap almost sank. And it was a Sun? day when we had to go over; it was a real no-no. And I remember I had to get somebody to row me ashore. I had to go up to a house--it was fairly close to where we had the trap. Knocked on the door Sunday morn? ing and asked them to use the telephone. And they looked at me: "You're not supposed to be around that, hauling that trap!" I said, "If we don't, we'll lose it." Because the herring were spawning. And the spawn gets all over the mesh of the nets, the mesh of the trap, and the weight is tremen? dous. (Oh, it seals it.) Yeah, it kind of seals it, you're right. And the heavy, heavy weight, and the seaweed and every? thing! There were 7 men and we were pulling that thing. An awful lot of work. And it'd get full of live herring, besides. If I remember rightly, they were 16 fathoms around--a trap like that. And about 6 fath? oms deep. And they had those big floats all around the top of it, and at the bottom it was like a great big basket sunk in the wa? ter. And it had a leader that went from the trap to the shore. The fish would hit the leader. Naturally, they're not going to swim ashore; they're going to swim out to the trap. And they get in and can't find their way out. That's the way they operate Out ... ineUeCO BIAXIAL THE MOST TRUSTED NAME IN HIGH SECURITY NOW EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE FROM DR. LOCK 473 Townsend St. (behind the provincial eidg.) Sydney 24-HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE: 562-4556 OWNED & OPERATED BY FREEMAN A. DRYDEN, B.A. B.Ed. FREE ESTIMATES Phone: 539-4111 Specialists in Certainteed / Kohler VINYL WINDOWS • No structural changes No more painting • Clean from inside it. It's as simple as--probably goes back to Biblical times! George laughs. (But it was interesting what you say: there's no capacity. So if a hundred thou? sand fish were caught today....) Oh, my God! (We wouldn't know what to do with it.) Not those kind; they wouldn't have a clue what to do with it. (The fish plants like that are....) They're all gone. Long gone. ?? AyloPoifsPhn The plant down here in North Sydney couldn't handle that, that's here today. Well, it's shut down now, but that would never handle it. It's just not set up for that. (You said before, "We foresaw it, but we didn't foresee it, in a way." I guess we didn't act on what we foresaw.) No, and the phi? losophy was dif? ferent . But I can remember my fa- 4 SAF-WAY AUTO PARTS LIMITED AUTOMOTIVE - INDUSTRIAL BODY SHOP SUPPLIES SYDNEY 361 GEORGE NEW WATERFORD 45610THST. 539-99701862-6491 539-0707 Fax 539-9741 341 Welton St., Sydney SERVING ALL OF CAPE BRETON PRODUCTS LTD. TOLL FREE 1-800-565-5044 ACADIAN STRIPS DAILY BETWEEN SYDNEY & HAUFAX TRIP 72 - Daily pick ups in: NORTH SYDNEY, LITTLE BRAS D'OR, MILLVILLE, ENGLISHTOWN, SOUTH HAVEN, BIG HARBOUR, BADDECK, HUNT? ERS MTN, NYANZA, LITTLE NARROWS, WHYCOC? OMAGH, ORANGEDALE, GLENDALE, KINGSVILLE, PORT HASTINGS, PORT HAWKESBURY, & others (TRURO 1:20 P.M. VIA RAIL connection) TRIP 64L - via St. Peter's - Pick ups in: SYDNEY RIVER, HOWIE CENTRE, EAST BAY, BIG POND, IRISH COVE, BARRA HEAD, ST PETER'S, CLEVE? LAND, PORT HAWKESBURY, & others TRIP 76 - Pick ups in: NORTH SYDNEY (5:00 P.M.), BADDECK (5:45 P.M.), WHYCOCOMAGH (6:20 P.M.), PORT HAWKESBURY (7:00 P.M.) ARRIVE HALIFAX 7:30 A.M. 3:00 P.M. 11:00 A.M. 5:45 P.M. 4:30 P.M, 10;5QP-M, (schedule Subject to Change} CALL 1-902-454-9321 for further Information PARCEL EXPRESS • Same day service to most Maritime points • Collect shipments now accepted • Excess insurance available to $500.00 • "Priority Pak" our new 12"x16" waterproof envelope with aflat rate throughout the Maritimes • sold 10 to a package $50.00 (includes GST) HISTORIC HALIFAX TOURS June 1 - October 15 See Historic Halifax We depart from most hotels for these tours. ACADIAN LINES LIMITED 6040 Almon Street, Halifax, N. S. B3K 5M1