HARVESTER PROFILE
Roy Fowlow
Newfoundland, Canada
HOME PORT
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Codroy |
YEARS IN INDUSTRY
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56 |
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VESSEL
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Hull Type: Fiberglass
Length: 26.0 feet
Speedboat - 136347
Year Built: 2009
Hull Type: Fiberglass
Length: 19.0 feet
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CREW
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Jason Collier |
FISHERIES
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Atlantic Halibut by Longline (NAFO 4R) LFA 13A - Newfoundland's West Coast |
CONTACT |
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I started fishing lobster at 16 from my hometown of Port Anson, Green Bay, in Canada's most easterly province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Two years later I joined an old skipper and his son who fished cod and salmon at Fish Hut Islands in White Bay. Back then there were no fresh fish, instead we split and salted all our codfish which was caught in cod traps or nets. My pay for that entire year was $332 which was paid in one lump sum at the end of the year. After that experience I decided to get my own fishing licence and go at it on my own. I started with lobsters, then cod and other groundfish. In 1977, my wife and I moved to Codroy on the Southwest Coast of the island portion of our province where I continued to fish and we raised our family. I still fish from Codroy today, fishing mainly lobsters, halibut and cod.
