Final Voyages

University Helps Out Local Fishermen

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Memorial University may be closed, but on the upside, it has given us access to one of its parking lots in Corner Brook to...

The Final Final

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This is Final Voyages #264 — the last of a 22-year series that began in the first Navigator Magazine in November 1997. When I pitched...

Providing No More – Part III

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Just before 8 p.m., Tuesday, February 6, 2018, the fishing vessel Fisherman’s Provider II ran hard aground on a shoal nearly three miles from...

Providing No More – Part II

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On February 6, 2018, the fishing vessel Fisherman’s Provider II left port in Canso, Nova Scotia on a five-day halibut fishing trip. After nearly...

Providing No More

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“It was totally bizarre.” That was the way veteran Canso fisherman Billy Bond described it. And, his sentiments, more or less, sum up the feelings...

It Must Have Been Really Quick – Part II

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After refitting his longliner in the winter of 1994/95, Skipper Bob Stacey from St. Lawrence had a brand-new boat ready for the 1995 fishing...

It Must Have Been Really Quick

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Bob Stacey was known as a hard-working fisherman. With little interest in anything else except hunting, the young fishing skipper from St. Lawrence, on the...

Third Time Unlucky – Part II

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Boat repairs created problems for fishing skipper Kenneth Hickey in 2015. His 45-foot vessel DSL Enterprises needed upgrading, but the work was taking longer...

Third Time Unlucky

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Kenneth Hickey was known as a cautious fisherman. His wife Madeline says her husband often worried about many of his peers because he felt they...

Pop’s Pride – Part III

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On September 6, 2016, the 22-foot fishing boat Pop’s Pride left port in St. John’s Newfoundland between 6:30 a.m. and 7 a.m. with four fishermen onboard....

Pop’s Pride – Part II

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Three members of one fishing family, along with a family friend, all from Shea Heights-St. John’s, N.L., went fishing on September 6, 2016 in...

Pop’s Pride

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Sonya Walsh didn’t hear her husband Keith get up on Tuesday morning, September 6, 2016. Neither did she hear the alarm clock that always woke...
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