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Interview with Jean-Levi d’Entremont

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NA 3480 (local)
Date
2003 (Date created)
Summary

 Jean-Levi d’Entremont, interviewed by James Moreira and David Sanger on July 18, 2003, at the home of Jean-Levi d’Entremont in Lower West Pubnico, Nova Scotia, Canada. Mr. d’Entremont talks about his experiences growing up in Lower West Pubnico in a fishing family; father was a lobster fisherman; completed his education through 9th grade; started lobster fishing at the age of 16 years; began swordfishing at the age of 22 years; spotting swordfish by fins or ripples in the water from the mast of the vessel; hauling swordfish into the dory; the difference between a swordfish fin and a shark fin; the processes involved after the swordfish is spotted and harpooned; the largest swordfish harpooned was five-hundred pounds; preferred lobstering to any other type of fishing; took up herring fishing for twenty-five years after swordfishing; swordfishing with harpoon versus fishing with trawls. Transcript: 35 pp
Recordings: C2514 / CD1159 1hour 20 minutes

 
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Mr. d’Entremont talks about his experiences growing up in Lower West Pubnico in a fishing family (Local)
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