Tsquared
Well-Known Member
i was a commercial troller for 12 years. The guys who really killed me were the ones who'd sit in the bar and tell me i was not a real commercial fisherman because I teach school in the winter. My question was " So what's the prerequisite for being a real commercial fisherman--the ability to collect pogey?" There were many commercial fishermen who did just as you say but there were also many of us who worked other jobs in the off season. Not everybody fished for stamps.A nice chap who is subsidized in his work by the state just by showing up for work enough days a year to collect EI cheques so he can at least break even because he can't make enough money from fishing to stay in business without a hand out.
T2