Little Bay: Why This Island Was Abandoned on December 31st, 2019

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[@Bottomgear5780]

"cod are both perpetually lethargic and ceaselessly hungry" Didn't realise I was a cod

[@gladitsnotme]

cod dang it

[@walterbrunswick]

how cod you

[@CrisStan]

cod you not

[@eacalvert]

Man all these jokes are honestly a little fishy

[@Yormsane]

Cod moves in mysterious ways.

[@cathaloshea1242]

Being an Irishman, it's amazing listening to the newfoundland accent and how similar it is to my own Irish accent. Newfoundland was known for years as the most Irish place in the world outside of Ireland. I would love to visit one day.

[@4R8YnTH3CH33F]

I didn't even realize that the video was about Canada until a minute or two in and I am Canadian. They have quite the unique accent, to say the least.

[@Zulfburht]

You’d love it, its a wonderful place.

[@hotspothawkins6453]

You ever hear about Newfie math? What’s three plus three? Three (tree plus tree equals tree)

[@cathaloshea1242]

@@hotspothawkins6453 haha yeah I pronounce it as tree also

[@leigh9360]

It's so weird. It sounds like a few of the west coast accents mashed together or something.

[@balonkita185]

"Cod is dead, Cod will remain dead, and we have killed it." - Fieschtze

[@sethjohnson1786]

Nice

[@mal2ksc]

"Cod is dead, and no one cares." -- Marlin Manson

[@wkdravenna]

Cod is next to codlyness -Benjamin Franklin president of Pennsylvania.

[@MrGared22]

Dude I spit my drink when I read "Fieschtze"!

[@AubriGryphon]

@@MrGared22 I wasn't drinking but that definitely gave me a bit of a fit.

[@snoomtreb]

I’m so sad for the 2 people staying. Holding on to a thing no longer there both speaks to how much they loved it, and a dispair high enough to deny it is happening.

[@Fanquon]

Not entirely the case. I think both of them Only moved back to Little Bay Islands not that long ago. I think the reason for staying was more so an opportunity to live a completely self sufficient and secluded lifestyle. Not so much a denial of reality, they were documenting their life on the island on Facebook, but I think they deleted their page, unfortunately n

[@GenkiGanbare]

It is so weird watching Wendover do a documentary on a place an hour away from where I was born. I'm used to watching videos about China, Brazil, the United States, Hong Kong, you know like really important and really populated places. It's like I'm learning about the world but nobody was supposed to know about my world, but that's changed now.

[@InfiniteHorizons]

Yep. I am from St. John's, never thought I would see him do a video on a place here LOL

[@Volcanikss]

Newfoundland and Labrador seems like a lovely place.

[@heh2393]

You are blessed to be so close to heaven on Earth.

[@cranberryjuice1005]

lol why Hong Kong?

[@kellyprice1024]

Do you feel like history was confiscated?

[@TheFadedFate]

My grandfather watched the fall of the cod industry post confederation due to the Canadian government allowing foreign boats to fish, and my father grew up in the ramefications of it. He told me about all 12 kids living in the old, one room hospital. They collected bottle caps for scrap metal. It destroyed families, and a unique way of life. It's tragic, really.

[@jeremietellier3116]

Foreign interests bought the canadian government.

[@yodasmomisondrugs7959]

@@jeremietellier3116 Oh damn you just said what I was going to say.

[@alganhar1]

Its a bit more complex than that. You see the Canadian Government did eventually kick in the EEZ and ban foreign boats fromf ishing the Cod within Canada's EEZ. Those fish were then fished by Canadian Fishermen unwilling to allow the quotas to drop. Essentially they picked up where the foreign fishermen left off and finished the destruction of the Grand Bank Fishing Grounds that the Foreign Fishermen had started. What *may* have saved the Fishery is if at the same time as banning Foreign boats from fishing Canadian waters the Canadian Government had put in place stringent and sensible quotas that the Canadian Fishing fleet followed. By the time the Canadian Government *did* bring in those quotas it was too late, the Cod population had already started to crash and to this day has not recovered. EDIT: Its an absolute classic in mismanagement of a Fishery, it was taught as such at several Universities I worked for as faculty in their Marine Bio departments. Unfortunately it is not the only example, and its not going to be the last, not by a long shot.

[@scpdatabase969]

This story of overfishing is gonna gradually become something we hear all over the world Overfishing is a huge, overlooked issue that’s feeding into climate change

[@midwings00]

Oh..it will only be an issue when the effects are drastic. This is a deliberate ignorance and apathy. We may have reached new heights as humans but we don't care for moderation and sustainability. Even in this video they talk about tradition and culture and other nonsense even some hope that one day in future these communities can come back recreate this disaster! One day everything will be fully engineered I guess all food is engineered now...

[@midwings00]

@@altrag just saw on reddit, a sting that exposed some Exxon person lobbying for more oil stuff....

[@ionymous6733]

only government can protect the people from money hungry corporations, or large groups of money hungry individuals, because neither can see the forest for the trees. But so many people are against government regulation. I wonder what Little Bay would be like today if there were reasonable fishing limits earlier.

[@midwings00]

@@ionymous6733 judging by how they talk about culture and traditions they would have been against it. It was the fish that made this community possible in the first place and yet these people are sad that a certain " way of life" is no more...its just like any community honestly. You move and live in a place because it gives you employment, you move away whether you like ot or not when that job is no more... I wonder how many people say culture and traditions and what not when they are fired from their job elsewhere...

[@andrewthompson5728]

You should see how Chinese "fishing fleets" are actually just gathering absolutely everything in wide swaths for miles. Disturbing.

[@FlyWithMe_666]

They need an international airport or major logistics hub to keep Wendover interested in this tiny island going forward.

[@alexyp8990]

Don't open that link. It's a "the story of adam (rick)roll"

[@MB-cv5pz]

@hv a gooday Not what I was expecting but okay

[@rikkisnow1313]

They have one of the most important international airports in the world. they control and guide a huge portion of al the trans Atlantic air traffic due to the position of Gander intl Airport and the Jet Stream.

[@unitrader403]

No, they need a Brick Factory!

[@questioner1596]

Gander, St. John's and Stephenville are international, though there are many others like Deer Lake that have flights to major Canadian cities like Toronto.

[@ragzaugustus]

So, whenever you hear anyone from the fishing industry moaning about quotas? This is what happens when you don't have them, this, or worse. When the Somalian government fell apart and the nation collapse into anarchy, guess what vanished too, the Coast Guard. The waters off Somalia was fished into obliteration within a matter of years, forcing the former native fishermen to take up another business, that of piracy. So remember, fish are not an unending resource, or this shit will keep happening.

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

it goes both ways sometimes theres not enough quotas sometimes theres too much quotas

[@nicosmind3]

Have you heard of the tragedy of the commons? Thats what destroyed the fishing stocks both here and the UK etc, cause no one had property rights over that area any longer. For centuries fishermen managed the stocks of the North Sea then French, Spanish, Dutch etc were allowed to fish, and since it wasnt their grounds they took what they could get. Dont forget they opened these waters and the Japanese came. You cannot have "common lands" open to everyone and owned by none, it always leads to disaster

[@aidancollins1591]

@@nicosmind3 No, this is not tragedy of the commons. This is more like multinational corporations invading a commons that was being managed just fine for centuries. Your username is funny, since you're still using KZbin.

[@DrLennieSmall]

The Somalian coast wasn't depleted by Somalis

[@nicosmind3]

@@aidancollins1591 You can try and deny it all you want, the waters were open to anyone who wanted to fish (as mentioned in this video, or any article on the Common Fisheries policy) and then everyone, including those who previously had ownership, fished until stocks were destroyed.

[@trishemerald2487]

Stunning place. I cried when my vacation to Newfoundland ended. It was the only holiday where I wasn't ready to go home.

[@countbenjamin1442]

So good had to watch it twice. I can't imagine being the only two people left on the island. I also can't imagine having to leave where you lives all your life.

[@greekswaglord-dathistoryla201]

Something similar happened with my grandfather's birth village in the mountains of Western Greek Macedonia, from a population of 300 in the 60s, it rapidly declined to 0 by the late 2000s as the great grandmas and grandpas finally died off, among them being my 99 year old great grandmother.

[@Bob_Smith19]

It happened all over the US when the US Army Corps of Engineers created man made lakes. People didn’t have to move as far but displaced people are still displaced.

[@sketchesofpayne]

I can't imagine living my whole life on the same island.

[@carryeveryday910]

@@sketchesofpayne I couldn’t imagine living my whole life in the same state.

[@questioner1596]

I notice from your conjugation of lives that you may be from Newfoundland - townie or bayman?

[@Deexeh]

"By the 1970's it was too little, too late." As a canuk, this should be apart of our national anthem. Seems that's the case for a lot of things in Canada.

[@Zulfburht]

Before i forget, i’m not a native islander. But i would like to take a moment to mention that today July 1st is also a day of mourning, and remembering for the Islanders. Let us remember the sacrifice of The Newfoundland Regiment 105 years ago in the trenches of Beaumont Hamel. Of the 801 who stormed over the top, only 68 were left for roll call the next day.

[@Ealsante]

Ah, the Battle of the Somme. So many lions led into death by donkeys. Theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die...

[@editor4958]

@@Ealsante i weep at the sacrifice. i am angered by the ignorance.

[@alganhar1]

@@Ealsante Unfortunately the Lions led by Donkeys myth is exactly that, a myth. The reasons behind the losses in the battles of WWI are many and varied, and FAR, FAR more complex and wide ranging than 'the Generals were bad'. Lets take one example, Cavalry. Hell, the fact that Cavalry was absolete as Cavalry was recognised in the British Army even before WWI, their cavalry had to undergo the full marksmanship and field qualifications as the infantry. In essence they were being trained as mounted infantry even before WWI started. Problem was, there was nothing to replace it in its fast exploitation role. And do not scream TANKS at me. Ever looked at 1918 tanks? The fast tank, the Whippet, could make maybe 8 miles an hour over perfect terrain (which most of the Western Front most assuredly was NOT). The Mk V heavies could manage 5 across perfect terrain with a tail wind. At Amiens 430 some tanks started the battle, by day three there were 47 runners, the vast majority of the casualties had broken down, 10% of them BEFORE they reached their starting lines. What does this mean? Well it means *everything* in the attack moves at a mans walking speed. Why is this important? Because the enemies reinforcments can be trained in via the vast French and German rail systems (literally designed with a mind to a war against each other) faster than you can break through. So that ONE thing, the fact there is not viable fast exploitation arm able to take advantage of any breakthrough is one of the very things that SHAPED the WWI battlefield on the Western Front. Then you have all the other myriad issues that include, but are not limited to: Increased lethality of weapons (understood before 1914 but no one had an answer) which is what forced troops to dig in in the first place, increased effectiveness of offensive over defensive technologies (until late 1917 - early 1918 when that started to reverse), inability for artillery to fire without pre-registering their guns (not solved until late 1917), inability to outflank as the lines ran from the Swiss Alps to the Sea and there WAS no Flank to attack, the relative stagnation of communications technology which meant attacking troops lacked an effective communications system, the requirement for the entire nations industries to ramp up into total war production (which took time), and so on. The Generals of WWI did in fact learn, the Generals of WWI literally wrote the book on modern combined arms warfare from scratch after they had to throw away every other book they had.....

[@scottcarter6623]

As a Newfoundlander who as lived in worked in a Mainland city for the last thirty years I was not able to watch this video without wet eyes. My own little community still exists, but it has shrunk by about 80%. I know dozens of communities like this that don't exist anymore. Thank you for this video.

[@stalinov91]

I have never been there, I may never live on an island like that and not even Canadian but still tears welled up in my eyes about how sad this is for the people who lived there for generations. Upsetting to see someone else's greed destroying entire communities.

[@StridesandSummits]

Man, being Canadian right now is one hell of an emotional roller coaster

[@nuarius]

We got a lot more skeletons in our closet yet. Canada has done a fantastic job at dusting its awful actions under the carpet, and for the majority of the public, keeping it there

[@roscoechance5155]

Amen to that

[@A.Filthy.Casual]

@@nuarius it's easy to get people to forget and keep it hidden when you live next to the U.S., which is far worse comparatively

[@Ealsante]

Canada is not unlike the UK in that respect. The apparent civility and politeness hides some awful, horrific truths.

[@KyleWatters71]

@@A.Filthy.Casual LOL it’s really not much worse. That’s just the narrative by idiots on the internet lacking context, nuance and information.

[@daftrok]

The fact that it was unanimous made it even sadder.

[@neeneko]

I wonder how the post-pandemic 'remote work' trend might impact places like this. I know a lot of well paid tech workers who would kill to live in a place like that and work remotely.

[@Carakav]

I got to move back to Maine because of my remote job, but it's not likely to be a permanent thing. A lot depends on internet infrastructure. If satellite connectivity greatly improves, I think more people will start to spread out. It also depends on the overall remote-work industry/culture evolves over time. Depending on how things play out, more and more people might work remote and businesses will abandon cities... or companies will start hiring cheaper and cheaper labor from international locations and abandon more expensive workers in 1st world countries. Hard to say.

[@nietur]

@@Carakav +1 satellite internet will improve greatly

[@axelpatrickb.pingol3228]

Hard to say. Especially when the place was cut off from services needed to keep it and remote work running like heat and electricity...

[@gladitsnotme]

It would probably take thousands if not millions to build a solar & water powered electrical grid for even just 10 houses + fire + water.

[@GenkiGanbare]

These communities had dial-up internet until like 2007. And groceries get trucked in once per week and are already spoiling on the truck. Outport Newfoundland needs serious infrastructure upgrades before they can accommodate people used to fresh food and internet speeds over 2 MB/s.

[@venkyvp1764]

Imagine moving to a new place, leaving your homeland, and being in lockdown for more than an year, must have been hell twice over

[@lakovkreativity1451]

Imagine of they held out just a little longer, they could've skipped the pandemic all together

[@NickFizzard]

As a Newfie, it's super awesome to see a channel I'm subbed to talk about Newfoundland!! We don't get a lot of exposure in media. xD

[@camanderson9954]

from ontario and one day I will make the journey that far east

[@newfieocean]

Yes it's pretty cool.

[@NopWorks]

Newfie is the new selfie

[@asystole_]

exdee less than three

[@pinsentaj]

I'm from NS but my grandfather's family is from NL( Trinity Bay area) and I love when any of the Atlantic Canadian provinces are mentioned in American content. We tend to be forgotten by the rest of Canada, let alone the US

[@PeterDuffII]

Why did this video feel so emotional man, I really felt for all the families who had to leave behind such a big piece of their heritage and history

[@niccurl9718]

Wow! My home province of Newfoundland made it to wendover!! I love living here, I remember seeing the final days of little bay islands!

[@rustomkanishka]

There's a lot about your home province on Rare Earth

[@EvanAviator]

why is everyone from newfoundland finding this video

[@newfieocean]

@@EvanAviator it's what we do. Pride like no other.

[@liesdamnlies3372]

Grew-up in Ontario, live elsewhere, never been to Newfoundland...and no offence, I love my fellow Canadians, but my god I don’t think I could stand living there. How? HOW!?! Far too disconnected from the rest of the country for my taste. XD

[@suussh1084]

@@liesdamnlies3372 i guess that could be a good point for MANY people. the maritimes are great if you don’t like heavily populated places, and want a calmer environment

[@jordank5623]

NL’er here, glad too see an episode on here that I actually know something about 😂.

[@mp40submachinegun81]

@Funtime Florian NL is the abbreviation for Newfoundland & labrador.

[@Codraroll]

@@mp40submachinegun81 More commonly known as the abbreviation for the Netherlands, though. Although in that case, they usually just say "Dutch" instead.

[@asystole_]

@@Codraroll You'd have to be on the spectrum to think somebody was talking about the Netherlands on a video about *N*ewfoundland and *L*abrador. Context clues people.

[@MrImnotMLGness]

Tell me how I knew this was newfoundland and Labrador without ever hearing it before. Something about that first map told me it was

[@FknSchaeffs]

Is it possible if was the big Newfoundland decal on the ferry in the first scene? 😅

[@niccurl9718]

I live in Newfoundland ☺️ I knew it right away!

[@Shovlaxnet]

Abandoned cold island screams Newfoundland And Labrador always, anyways.

[@FknSchaeffs]

@@Shovlaxnet that is true 😅 it kind of just cries east coast

[@RoundHouseDictator]

Little Bay island and newfoundland Island have the same haircut

[@williamlloyd3769]

Recall seeing cod preserved in traditional style in Iceland when stationed at NAS Keflavik in late 1970s. Tried some dried fish and it takes some getting use to, but better then some freeze dried food. Iceland has been successful in managing cod stocks to avoid collapse.

[@janinewetzler5037]

Not allowing foreign fisheries in to pillage stocks probably.

[@williamlloyd3769]

@@janinewetzler5037 aka Cod War against UK

[@KFOish]

Good job telling the specific story of one community, with nods to resettlement and reliance on a single industry which both have plagued the province. Beautiful photos and video scenery!

[@kingdonaltron]

“Cod are both perpetually lethargic and ceaselessly hungry” I can relate😩😭

[@Bob_Smith19]

This is depressing on so many levels.

[@TherconJair]

And the most depressing thing is this is basically climate change in small. We'll just resettle too once we're done destroying our livelihood. /s

[@wkdravenna]

This is white supremacy at it's most Canadian.

[@jermainefr]

@@wkdravenna want to run us through that?

[@ipadair7345]

@@wkdravenna how, is everything just race vs race to you

[@wkdravenna]

@@ipadair7345 says the patriarcist !

[@chawco]

Sam, I've been watching your channels and listening to your podcasts for years now, but I never thought you'd cover something so close to home. My Mom's family is from Fogo Island, a larger island in Notre Dame Bay. My father's best friend was resettled from Indian Islands under Joey Smallwood. I spent summers on Fogo Island growing up (and can confirm first hand that you couldn't find a cod to save your life in the 90s; it's a different story these days), and my wife and I were married there 5 years ago. You've done a great job here (aside from pronouncing capelin, and throwing in some pictures of fishing in Nova Scotia, where I grew up ;) ) and I'm glad you're here to cover places like this. Thank you.

[@lukerobinson700]

Surreal seeing areas that I grew up around on one of my favourite channels, thanks Sam, great video.

[@ryanpugh]

This is a wonderful, wonderful documentary of so many communities here in Newfoundland. Dozens of such communities are still scratching the clutching at existence. Every one of these communities had generations of inhabitants who lived, fished, and died there. So much artwork and quilts and mittens knit. Stories told around a cup of tea and a hand of cards. The moritorium was the death knell to Newfoundland's heart.

[@valkymer24]

Thank you so so much for your contents. One of my favorite escapes from the realities of life. Makes me calm in stressful situations. Distracts me from all the anxieties by immersing myself into world of planes, logistics, and isolated places. I cannot imagine commuting at 5:45am without watching your videos. Wishing you all the best.

[@theheroweneededbutdidntdeserve]

This story sounds like an alternate ending to Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs where Flint Lookwood's invention doesn't work. As the years went by the town's population shrank due to a lack of jobs. Now the last ferry from Swallow Falls leaves, leaving a legacy that never even began in the first place.

[@glorioustigereye]

This is funny and depressing at the same time. Maybe the writers knew of this issue.

[@tedparkinson2033]

Oh gee wizz! Thanks for the depression!

[@mikemeal]

As a finnish person, I keep hearing "New Finland" when you say Newfoundland :D

[@rubennavasardyan3501]

Because that's how it's pronounced. We all call it like that here in Canada.

[@sagehewson3950]

@@rubennavasardyan3501 not quite, the emphasis is on "fin" in finland, whereas the the emphasis is on "land" in newfoundland. Plus its closer to fen than fin. Think "newfenLAND"

[@liesdamnlies3372]

@@sagehewson3950 How to tell if someone is Canadian. It’s not “New-Found-Land” it’s...whatever the fuck that is that we say, and it’s not “Toronto” it’s “Torrono”. XD

[@sagehewson3950]

@@liesdamnlies3372 tronah

[@paranoidrodent]

@@liesdamnlies3372 "Trono" or "Trona" is typical if you are from Toronto while "Torono" (dropping the second T) is more common elsewhere in Canada. Atlantic Canadian and French Canadian accents seem to sound the second T though (and it is sounded in Canadian French, even in Ontarian French accents). The "Trona" sounding is a holdover from the previously common (and now nearly extinct) Toronto urban accent which faded away in the last few decades of the 20th century, being replaced by a regional variation on the Canadian Standard (the common urban accent heard from Vancouver to Ottawa). That distinctive way of saying Toronto was typical of the vowel shifts and consonant dropping patterns of the now rare Toronto accent (the vowels turned non-distinct and the T went from a glottal stop to disappearing entirely with time). Some older folks still have the old Toronto accent (a lot of them live in the 905 belt now) but it's usually muted these days, influenced by the Canadian Standard accent they hear around them now. The old Toronto accent is quite nasal and a bit reminiscent of some old New York accents (like Brooklyn or the Bronx). You can hear traces of it in the old King of Kensington sitcom but even by then the urban accent was shifting. One of my uncles (he's in his 60s by now) is part of the last generation to really have that accent and his "Trona" doesn't sound odd or forced but rather just fits in normally with the phonetics of his natural accent.

[@spencergaffney9044]

OMG I absolutely loved the extremities podcast and I was so upset to see no new episodes or destinations, so excited for the channel

[@samknechtenhofer365]

I’m so glad there are people like you and your team documenting stories like these.

[@Legitti]

Little Bay: Let's see how the rest of the world is like World: Covid-19

[@johncarlton7289]

So much this.

[@editor4958]

hah

[@Kaneko69.]

When your about to watch the video but then you realized you already watched it on extremities.

[@nicolisandrianidis8028]

My family is from Newfoundland. Thank you for bringing some attention and exposure to this beautiful and unique part of Canada!!

[@tylrwnzl]

My grandmother was from one of those outports, and her brother wrote a book about growing up there. She left in the early 60s bit I remember visiting the homestead as a child in the 90s. Thank you for sharing this story Sam.

[@reetodd9103]

Talk to any Newfie and they’ll tell you about how joining Canada ruined the Cod, and after the Cod was gone people had no choice but to leave on mass

[@rosairedubrule60]

te us and canada should have put grands banks off limits

[@scottcarter6623]

@@rosairedubrule60 easy to say now, but honestly in the 60's people really had no idea it was even possible to destroy the stock. I still lived in Newfoundland during the first years of the moratorium. I don't think any video no matter how well done can really explain how massive a low it was.

[@DementedMK]

This is one of the best videos you have ever produced, and legitimately left tears in my eyes. Thank you.

[@historicalfootnotes]

I think this is my new favorite channel of yours Very interesting to hear about these kinds of places that you never hear about normally

[@ntcn0ah06]

Awesome to see Wendover cover a topic from Newfoundland! I visited Little Bay Islands just last summer and it is such an interesting, but melancholy experience. Lots of communities that have/will go through the same dilemma as Little Bay Islands.

[@lliamsmith5859]

I thought i was having dejavu before i saw it was a post on the main channel lol. Im loving the Extremities content so far, keep up the good work!

[@imjody]

Wow! I've had an ultra-wide 1440p monitor now for like two years, and this is one of the only KZbin videos that has ever fit my monitor perfectly. I love it!

[@kahdaj]

What a beautiful video! Congratulations on your new channel and all your future accomplishments!

[@DrSporea]

Captivating niche topic and excellent production. Looks great on 21:9 native screens. Good luck with the new channel!

[@PurpleTurtle7288]

Beautiful story, thank you for making something about Newfoundland

[@jonasdatlas4668]

Oooh, an abandoned place! I’m immediately more interested.

[@6z0]

ew

[@JohanKylander]

@@6z0 The danger is what makes exploring abandoned places exciting.

[@jonathanpalmer228]

Thank you for this! I love these and glad I can see them now

[@Psittac20]

There are a handful of creators that I will follow to any new channel, and this is one of them. Subscribed before even watching the video because I knew it would be good, and indeed it was.

[@SapioiT]

Honestly, if they allowed fish farms (growing fish in nets in the water) for cod, and required that a percentage of the fish grown in the nets be released (even as little as 0.1%), they could recover the ecosystem in as little as a few years, to as long as a decade or two. The higher the percentage required to be released in the wild, the faster the recovery, and allowing fish farms would allow people to live on the island full time and profit from doing so. At most, they would need to dredge some land near the island, for the fish farms to have more room for the fish to grow. And cheap biomass can be used to feed the fish, even simply catching cheaper fish, mincing them into pieces, and feeding them to the cod in the farms.

[@zigmeisterful]

Exactly this. For anyone to think that fishing on such a scale is a sustainable way of life is being fooled. It's shitty that there's a lot of history on the island, and that after many generations, the people have had to move away, but life goes on. These type of people need to learn to break tradition and move outside of their comfort zones.

[@Bob_Smith19]

@@zigmeisterful that’s easy for you to say. The problem is non sustainable practices. Technology creates as many, if not more, problems than it solves.

[@SapioiT]

​@@Bob_Smith19 That is only true if you keep technology in isolation from everything else. If you're blindly going aver technological advancement, you do get more problems than you solve. If the actual goal is to improve the living standards and technology is only a tool (bad pun intended), then technology solves more problems than it creates.

[@SapioiT]

​@@zigmeisterful It's not about breaking tradition, it's about a mixture of the governing entity making fairly bad decisions, compounded by the people being unwilling to innovate in order to improve their lives. As someone in the video said, their parents and grandparents wanted to get out of the fishing industry, which is why the village ended up abandoned. If they really wanted to continue fishing, even if on a smaller scale, they would have tried a lot of random things until something worked, and the state would have at least partially paid for it. On google maps, I can see at least 2 large golf-like areas, which could be diked to form two large lakes separate from the sea, where fishing would technically be allowed, being separated from the ocean. At the very least, they could use such areas to grow fish from eggs to a size at which they could scavenge the sea, release them at that size while making it into an event which to attract tourists, and then in a few years the population if cod would have replenished to the point where fishing would still be doable, and they would only allow fishing under certain limits, the rest of the fish growing in the diked gulf-lakes. I mean, you wouldn't release all the fish, just what won't fit inside those diked lakes. And those dikes themselves would serve as a tourist spot and as shared USA-Canada research into the usage of dikes to extend the usable land. Specifically, two dikes on the east to close the southern harbor while still using the Goat Island and Macks Island as harbors, and three dikes to close the North Harbor, leaving the south-eastern side of the Harbor Island and the Batt Cove for harbors. Batt Cove could also be closed with a dike, to serve as a lake used to propagate the fish, and water filters could be used to grow more fish than would normally grow for that size of lake, by constantly refreshing the water with new seawater. And that's even if they don't use netting farms anchored to the ground with their tops floating above water. And part of the funding and expertise could also come from environmental fishing advocate groups.

[@SapioiT]

@@zigmeisterful I wonder how I could get in touch with someone from that island. People probably keep in touch, and those ideas could be used to revive the island's popularity and increase it's permanent population.

[@mittensfastpaw]

This is really sad and even more so considering how we have ruined many fishing lanes. It will only get worse with nations like the PRC literally letting fleets ruin any area they can touch.

[@hagron5702]

That was an amazing video. I never knew about these villages and I live in Québec, right next door. Thanks for sharing.

[@Yotrek]

6:30 The village: "We're self reliant". Also the village: Electricity shuts off immediately. No solar battery bank, no 10' buried pipes for heat, no tidal power wave generators.

[@amanrubey]

I super duper love learning about remote places! Especially these icy places

[@vsm6847]

The unnecessary Pause Is Strong With this One.

[@trinomial-nomenclature]

Oh God, don't ever watch Chills or Nexpo. They have massive pauses, especially Chills, that sometimes makes it seem like they're trying a little too hard to be "spooky".

[@kimjunguny]

this is probably one of his worst most boring videos. This story could have been told in 10 minutes.

[@editor4958]

@@kimjunguny ouch kim

[@sheilagravely5621]

Yes. Thank you.

[@ilyakogan]

It took me 7 minutes of the video to realise that you're not saying "New Finland". Also, excited about the new channel!!!

[@veganchaatparty]

super beautiful story....super thanks for sharing....super amazing...thanks....

[@DrPlatypus1]

Outstanding video. Fascinating, sad, and beautifully presented.

[@leonardofilippini]

god i can't begin to imagine how much it must've hurt to leave a place where your ancestry lived for more time than my own country has been around (i'm from italy). really heartbreaking

[@GenkiGanbare]

Absolutely shattering. It's directly tied to the amount of alcoholism in Newfoundland. We didn't learn anything from what happened after the Trail of Tears, or the forced relocation of ethnic peoples in Eastern Europe. When you uproot a community and force them to go live somewhere else that's alien to them, it's like separating a person from their mother. The land is your mother.

[@HMNNO]

Happens all the time with countries having war or starvation and immigrants fleeing for a better life. It’s a sad reality

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

2019 was the end of so many eras.

[@kilyaded7332]

Loved the video! Now I'm gonna head on over to Extremities and watch it again!

[@assizetech9059]

You deserve far more views for such an amazing content.

[@JoshGeoGoose]

FINALLY SOMEONE PRONOUNCES NEWFOUNDLAND CORRECTLY!! You don't realize how important that is to me. (Even if you got it wrong early in the video haha) Wow it's crazy to see a video about little Bay islands. I was born and raised (and still live) in Newfoundland's capital of St. John's. A lot of other communities in the province look to face the same fate in the future. There are many small towns that are serviced by remote ferries and they are costing the province exorbitant amounts of money. Newfoundland is famous for its numerous tiny rural fishing communities. As the cod industry died out these communities either thrived on the families of fishermen staying, or people using them as vacation homes. It's looking like as time goes on, these towns will begin to fall one by one as they are extremely difficult to service from a governmental perspective whether it be medical care, food delivery, etc. Eventually these amazing relics of the past cod industry will be far fewer than today. If you ever visit Newfoundland I highly recommend taking a trip to a few of these purports of your choice (we literally have HUNDREDS). Hope you enjoyed speaking to the locals, and hopefully their Newfie accents weren't too difficult to understand! Really enjoyed this video and it's pretty much completely historically accurate. Great work

[@chokeassracing]

Wow back-to-back uploads! Wendover is so amazing! 👏

[@c-barsadventures4135]

Nice to see a close to home history lesson on KZbin. Took a video of the Hazel Mcisaac a few days ago making the crossing to long Island. She used to make both crossings. Now just one 1800 foot journey every few hours. These small communities around here are just they way people know and grew up. 3 minute ferry ride to go home, do groceries, what have you. I have the privilege of living all over and having a comparison. What I call it is were stuck in the 70's, things just stood still here and I couldn't enjoy it more.

[@adamlheureux7287]

i was a massive fan of the pod, glad to see the concept return

[@lucashatcher3762]

Wow always love when Big KZbinrs talk about my home,Newfoundland😌

[@cerjmedia]

"This episode is sponsored by....... well, us I guess

[@ChimeraActual]

Coming from the Codfish state (Massachusetts) with Maritime ancestry I'm sorry to hear this. It's also likely that the Portuguese were fishing for Cod early on. It may be down east for Yankees, but it was a reach both way for them. Dried Cod fed much of the world, I remember finding it in markets throughout Mexico.

[@jgaztelu]

Amazing doc, thanks for mentioning the Basques!

[@SadhuTravels]

Me, not even a Canadian, have a numb heart after seeing this. Everyone of us need to do their part to support and practice sustainability.

[@recurse]

Awesome to see a story about Newfoundland, thank you for doing this! It's pronounced NEW-fun-land or new-fun-LAND, though, never new-FIN-land or God help us, new-FOUND-land 😃. You did better than most, but I caught some "fins" early on lol

[@E4439Qv5]

Nyoof'nlund?

[@SCIFIguy64]

It's spelled Newfoundland so I'm gonna say new-found-land.

[@recurse]

@@SCIFIguy64 well, you're saying it wrong. If you don't mind being wrong, go ahead 🤷‍♂️

[@stanrogers5613]

@@E4439Qv5 Nope, no "y" in the "New" part, and the "land" is pronounced with a distinct "a" (not a schwa) and with nearly the same stress as the first syllable most of the time. (Since that's just about the only thing the townies and baywops have ever agreed upon apart from "bakeapple jelly RULEZ!!!!!", it's important to get it right.)

[@TheBasil36]

Just pronounce it like understand.

[@tomwaite4594]

Excellent history lesson wrapped in outstanding content and high production value video. Superb edit and soundtrack as well. Too bad the message will fall on deaf ears for most. Thank You for your efforts...so very well done.

[@jcampbell461]

I subscribed the second you mentioned that you had a new channel, even before watching this video 😊

[@gododoof]

One amazing thing about resettlement in the old days is that people would take their entire house with them. You can find pictures of houses floating on the ocean, going to their new home town.

[@chair547]

I just realized that these are all places you need a plane to get to so it makes sense that Wendover is doing it

[@KnightThomash]

Two of the three islands he's made videos on can only be reached by boat

[@chair547]

@@KnightThomashboats are just planes that swim instead of fly

[@thebluetarp]

Love getting on google maps and exploring remote towns. Please do a video on the Darien Gap!

[@paulbiya5647]

Didn't realize I wanted to live in an off grid house in an outport community until now. Thanks for this trip, Sam. This video really got me travelling to canada

[@roweboat4286]

If you ever do, there are still many communities on the verge of resettlement here in Newfoundland (and have been for years) which you can still visit. st. Brendan's is the first that comes to mind. There are also resorts, like the woody island resort which are in communities that have already resettled.

[@6z0]

No Curiositystream sponsor? This feels odd…

[@Y.M...]

Good, because I'm already a member and I don't like seeing it over and over again despite the fact, lol

[@holup977]

@@Y.M... do you know of sponsor block?

[@PeterNjeim]

@@holup977 yeah I use SponsorBlock on all my devices: Android with KZbin Vanced, Android TV with SmartTubeNext, and Browser with SponsorBlock Extension

[@holup977]

@@PeterNjeim no way!! Me too

[@andrade4630]

@@holup977 What is it?

[@sammymarrco2]

Re-upload?

[@jesush.christ6184]

advertising for the new channel

[@jordanwardan7588]

yes like he explained at the beginning of the video you commented on

[@sincitytitan7118]

@@jordanwardan7588 old explanation. This channel has been around for a while

[@tycan4329]

Great video. I spent my summers growing up visiting my grandparents in another outport on another small island just across the way from Little Bay Islands, so it was cool to see something featured so close to home and in a fair amount of depth. Thank you for covering it! (Though my father wasn't a fisherman (he was a miner), I was one of the 10% of Newfoundlanders & Labradorians that left the province to go elsewhere in Canada in the 1990's. Definitely a sad time for the province. Small point of interest that's a little off topic - the cliffs shown at the 13 minute mark is actually just outside Corner Brook, a small city in the western part of the province. Legend talks about "The Man in the Mountain" looking down towards a pirate's buried treasure. Lol. It's hard to see on this particular picture, but there's an image of an old man's face looking down and to the right. Here, he is just to the right of the dark vertical crevice.

[@littleretroship6403]

I can’t believe that you made a video about our little Newfoundland. I and other Newfoundlanders thank you for recognizing our province.

[@elvenkind6072]

As a Norwegian, that know we still have a thriving cod industry around the Lofoten islands, I kind of wonder why our quotas and why the fish we get here, don't "infect" the dead zones across the Atlantic... We have been exporting dry fish to the Spanish and Portuguese bacalao pots for centuries.

[@Ealsante]

It's possibly because cod live on the continental shelf, and don't really venture across vast open waters.

[@scottcarter6623]

The massive numbers of harp seals in the area is a large factor in keeping the population down, but in the last few years a lot more great Whites are being see. hopefully that will help bring some more balance.

[@vsm6847]

God I can’t get through this video. I love the content so much, but I can’t listen because all my brain is focusing on is the repeating. Pattern. Of. Pauses.

[@idontreallylikeyoutube]

Thank you for telling this story!!!

[@amanrubey]

The production quality of this video is out of this world

[@justingolden21]

Teacher: I hope you took good notes: My notes: "cod important"

[@wayner396]

Did this teacher work in a "clash room"? 18:26 and 18:29 😉

[@supermaster2012]

Extremitiea is flagged as a kids channel, meaning that you cannot turn on notifications. Unless you fix that, Extremities is completely doa.

[@alexc2265]

My goodness, this fills me with something like a nostalgia or empathetic grief. O, the passage of time weathering everything away… もののあわれ

[@andrewbleackley1832]

I love your extremities series. Glad it's got it's own channel. Forgot to sub on the initial announcement. Done now

[@uydagcusdgfughfgsfggsifg753]

This content is fucking amazing, excited to see more on the new Channel!

[@Floof_Factory]

I'd live there if I can have a decent internet connection

[@SuperSMT]

Starlink!

[@m2oman]

Really appreciate who Wendover/Extremities Team, Capture and Digitally tell Stories of meaningful, people, places and projects.

[@hotcheeto9180]

Having grown up in a small fishing community in Newfoundland, this hits pretty close to home.

[@deldarel]

"Cod is dead, we killed him" - Nriedrich Fiszche

[@russellwilliams9437]

i would love to visit there for a week

[@SuperCompany007]

Wow extremities is like a perfect channel for me. I’ve always been fascinated by humans settling in extremely remote places

[@kellyadam8792]

Excellent video on the struggles in Newfoundland.