672 THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



LABRADOR FISHING SCHOONER, BLOWN UP HIGH AND DRY AFTER A BIG GALE 



These storms are rare in Labrador; a really bad gale doing damage of any extent to craft is 



quite infrequent 



very seriously the cod fishery itself by 

 almost entirely preventing the great 

 shoals coming inshore to feed. No 

 means are taken to recuperate this fish- 

 ery. There exists no fish hatchery, and 

 no scientific use of deep-sea thermome- 

 ters. Only a very few use preserved 

 bait, and there is no bait-freezer on the 

 coast, and no cold storage to carry away 

 fish fresh to market. 



As yet the putting up of fresh codfish 

 in tins has not been successful in the 

 markets because not backed by capital 

 and advertisement. We used the past 

 winter side by side the fresh fish frozen 

 and some excellent tinned cod put up by 

 an enterprising firm from Fogo, New- 

 foundland, and as yet at least no one has 

 been able to tell which fish they were 



eating. What has happened to our 

 mackerel and our marvelous herring I 

 do not know ; all I am able to state, na 

 scientific efforts have been made to find 

 out. 



The survey of the coast is so ancient 

 and so unreliable that we have devoted 

 considerable time to making charts of 

 our own, in which efforts I have during^ 

 two summers been helped by his excel- 

 lency Sir William MacGregor, the for- 

 mer Governor of Newfoundland. 



Till quite recently not a single light- 

 house served to help the numberless craft 

 plying their calling on the coast, and stilt 

 today not a single harbor has a light or 

 has in any way been artificially im~ 

 proved. 



I remember well when the only light 



