PRE: Week 5, Day 2, Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Here are several different identifications taken from the writing of students in the class. Work with your group members to decide how to improve these. What information needs to be clarified? What information could be cut? What should be added?

Lunenburg : Lunenburg was a fisherman and schooner racer too.Lunenburg raced Gloucestor. Lunenburg built a bigger schooner '' The Bluenose ''for the compition. In 1969, it was Lunenburg's last fishing schhooner.

Ghost nets are gillnets that were once attached to buoys to keep them a float, sometimes the nets detach and then they become death traps called "ghost nets." Gillnets catch all forms of marine life big enough to get their heads into the intentionally sized holes of a gillnet or anything that happens to trapped underneath, making it an extremely efficient way for catching fish, they are weighted to float just above the seafloor. Even after becoming a ghost net, they stil continue to catch fish, until weighed down by dead bodies; until the bodies are cannibalized by their brethren, releasing the murderous net from the depths to start killing again. Advances in gill net technology, the switch from hemp to nylon and later nylon to micro-filament, have made them nearly invisible and non-biodegradable, making the modern ghost an incredible killing machine, thanks to these advances it's reign of terror can go on for a full five years, killing thousands of marine animals including cod.


Dorymen are fishermen who fish on a small boat called dory. The dorymen usually have to sail by rowing with oars From the seventeenth century to the 1930s, people fished cod in dories. Many dorymen fished under poor and dangerous conditions even leading to death many times because the boat was so small and unstable against strong winds.


Gorton's is the name of a seafood company located in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The Gorton's sponsored U.S. schooners which was used in schooner races against the Canadian schooner. The seafood company sponsored several other schooners throughout until the last schooner which was built in 1905.


Factory Ship is a large ship with deck space for handing fish; for commercial purposes. Joncas’s is the first person to ask Canadian government for help to acquire a competitive fishing boat such as factory boat. The factory boat radically change cod fishing because now the factory boat can bring back the fish to shore faster then schooners or it can be make as frozen food on the factory boa to keep the fish longer.


Dory is a little fishing boat, only having room for 1 or 2 fishermen and used commonly from 1600s to the 1930s for cod and groundfishing. Dories were mentioned as dangerous fishing boats because they are too small to be overloaded by fish and sink down the water. The dories also appeared as useful boats for longlining fishing technique, which was used so massively that caused the fish starting disappear. Longlining was banned in the late 1940s.