The Labrador fishery is an example of this type of fishery where fisherman move around to various fishing grounds.
What is a migratory fishery?
100
The unit of measurement by which fish were measured and sold was called this.
What is a quintal?
100
This weapon used in the seal fishery, was a club with a hook at the end.
What is a gaff?
100
In the 1830s, this company quickly put small traders out of buisness.
What is the Hudson's Bay Company?
100
In this type of economy, people purchase the things they need with cash, debit cards, or credit cards.
What is a consumer economy?
200
In this branch of the fishery, fishermen operated out of small boats near the shores of Newfoundland and Labrador.
What is the inshore fishery?
200
This was the name of the person who graded a fisherman's catch.
Who is the culler?
200
This seal product was used for lamps, machine lubricants, softening textiles, and as an ingredient in paint, explosives and margarine.
What is oil?
200
The Inuit traded with these people at their mission stations further north along the coast.
Who are the Moravians?
200
In this type of economy, people produce and make what they need for themselves.
What is a subsistence economy?
300
Fisherman who fished in Labrador and who dried their catch on the premises in Labrador were known as this.
What are stationers?
300
The credit system used between fishermen and fish merchants was also known as this.
What is the truck system?
300
In this branch of the seal fishery, sealers could walk from the shore onto the ice for the hunt.
What is the landsman's hunt?
300
This man was one of Newfoundland's greatest shipbuilders.
Who is Michael Kearney?
300
Weighted lines, with hooks baited with small fish, squid, and shellfish that were used in the inshore fishery are known as this.
What are handlines?
400
This branch of the fishery was the most dangerous.
What is the bank fishery?
400
Why were fisherman in outport communities at a disadvantage?
What is they only had one fish merchant in their community who had total control.
400
This disaster claimed the lives of 173 people on March 13, 1914.
What is the Southern Cross disaster?
400
Aside from being an incredible ship builder, Michael Kearney also had this job.
What is a politician? (He was member of the House of Assembly)
400
The practice of removing the seal's pelt with a layer of fat still attached is called this.
What is sculping?
500
These were two of the responsibilities of children involved in the fishery.
What are helping women with their chores, cooking for men and women, bringing tea, fetching and carrying, taking care of babies, shooing goats, and shooing flies?
500
Most of the highest-grade fish were sent to these countries in southern Europe.
What are Spain, Portugal, and Italy?
500
The northeastern coast of the Newfoundland was known as this in regards to the seal fishery.
What is the front?
500
This was the reason that trapping was a very lonely lifestyle.
What is the fisherman were away from home for months at a time?
500
When people are able to provide for themselves, they are said to be this.