Wharf rat...
Sunset at the Breakwater beside Ferry Terminal at Pictou
Quilt exhibited in the Raven Gallery in Tatamagouche
The Raven Gallery in Tatamagouche
Balmoral Grist Mill near Tatamagouche
Sutherland Mill near the Sunrise Trail in Nova Scotia
Toney River Fishermen's Harbour
Toney River - Fishing boats
Fishing Boats at Toney River, NS
Ready to go Blue Fin Tuna Fishing
Barbie Doll art inside a wharf building in Toney River
True Blue Nova Scotia Fisherman
He owns a 200 acre farm, but has no time to work the fields. He goes fishing for lobster, herring, mackerel and blue fin tuna. He will go off for another three weeks before freeze up around Cape Breton to take advantage of the last blue fin tuna before he has to take the boat out of the water for the winter. Toney Harbour - as almost all the coastal harbours - will freeze solid in winter. Come spring, the fishermen's co-op will have to dredge the harbour from annual silt deposits before he can go out again.
He finds that between the seals feasting on fish stocks, and factory ships depleting them at an unsustainable rate, the blue fin tuna are arriving skinnier each season, and earlier....there are not sufficient bait fish for them to feed on.
But, he has to put food on the table, and fishing does that better than farming.
