1930s Fishing in New England 221277-05X | Footage Farm

[@MetalDEmpire]

Decades before the cod collapse of '92

[@ConvairDart106]

Where does it say, that your logo, and the film counter, has to take up half of the video? One, across the middle top, and the other, across the middle bottom? As if you own this film, or had anything to do with it's production? I fish Cod in the Bering sea, and have films of my own, and NEVER, would I stick my logo over the top of them. Channel blocked!

[@gigabilitydontask1549]

And you can't sell fog at the market if they showed this is kids in school today they laugh and definitely all of them wouldn't want to do it and if they did go they'd be so miserable they think they were dying one of the toughest jobs then and now

[@zhraya_]

How long it takes to fishing?

[@robertmcglinchey3347]

The length of a trip in the 1930s depended on where but generally 2-3 weeks. They sold the catch in NYC, Boston or local. Summertime meant sword fishing which was more like a sport and trips were a few days. Today, the fish were overs spent especially 700 foot factory ships. In the 30s there were a hundred or so boats and today about a dozen that take day trips and stay within site of land. Gloucester does have three small factory ships that spend weeks on trips At the moment lobstering is doing fairly well. The only country I know that’s rebounded is Norway - cod is doing well again.

[@ConvairDart106]

@@robertmcglinchey3347 I am assuming that the boats that stay out for 3 weeks, are salting their fish? I have been fishing Cod in Alaska, for over 3 decades. Ice, or RSW, (refrigerated sea water) restricts our trips to 3-4 days at the most. The fish begin to spoil if held longer than that. We once tried trawling off the Pribilof islands, but the distance was so far from Dutch Harbor, that we had one day to fish, and the cannery did not want the load, as it was already going bad after 4 days in the tank, at 33 degrees. We are not allowed to go any colder, as freezing the roe, destroys it. Freeze brine is possible, but not allowed in this fishery. By the way, Alaskan Cod, is doing well in the Bering Sea, but the Gulf of Alaska on the other hand, got wiped out by two warm blobs of water that destroyed the fishery altogether. Global warming is real. In November of 2018, I ran a Tuna boat I was operating, from San Fran, to Hono, and the sea was a consistent 86 degrees all the way across. The air, was colder than the sea. The future is looking bleak, to this old timer.

[@robertmcglinchey3347]

@@ConvairDart106 Yes,seventy years or sooner longer trips salted the fish, particularly cod then dried it on flake rakes dockside. The flakes were boxed for home consumption. Again long ago in New England. Trips today are a day. Maybe 2 or 3. Check out Norway’s fisheries. The look sustainable. Smaller boats. The did away with National control and are self governed. And even today the export small boxes of salted cod. I worked for the local TV station and regularly recorded meetings about the fishing industry. Those with a good feel of the ocean think the fish will come back but others say no. On top of that NOAO has created a two way mistrust. In Norway the boat size is. smaller - it had opened up to recreational fisherman of a dozen or more. Apparently very successfully - oh also I heard a fjord opened up a large reserve of cod.

[@ConvairDart106]

@@robertmcglinchey3347 The factory boats, are the reason we had to venture up to the Pribilofs. They wiped out everything around Dutch Harbor, and moved all the rock piles around, and left us with nothing to catch. Our boat is 80 feet, leaving us dependent upon the shore plants. The state tried to even the playing field by giving the Adak fishery to vessels of 100 feet or less. Trident seafoods, actually chopped the bows off a few of their vessels to get in, and sent one of their floaters out there to process! The wording should have been for existing 100 footers but no, they left a huge loophole for the canneries to exploit. They made enough profit to justify chopping the bows off, and then re-welding them back on afterward!

[@tommy..980]

@@ConvairDart106 sorry but global warming is a political tool used by the left to further their agenda!!!! John Kerry is a perfect example!!!

[@shellicleary815]

Bill Chace

[@corkcamden9878]

Your counter/logo plastered across the bottom third of the film puts me in mind of a dog peeing on a hydrant to mark his territory. You're so paranoid someone's going to infringe on your property. Loosen up.

Will the sons and grandsons of these fellows ever be blessed by GOD with enough fish to make a good living again? Not only would our Heavenly Father have to send us fish, but destroy the anti-CHRIST Eggheads and regulators to permit a good living.

[@manuelcardenas6837]

God help us all