Too foolish to talk about -
Why does the DFO keep coming up with something stupid. Are they told to do it by the fishermen? Or is it because they are over educated.
There is such a thing as being over educated. In fact, there is only a paper-thin barricade between a genius and a fool. I think with the DFO, the barricade came down and the fools appeared.
To those young fishermen who are trying to get into the fishery - beware. Before you leap, look at the bubbling fat in the frying pan. You could end up being deep-fried.
My son has fishing in his blood. He lives for the sea. Recently, he got his own fishing enterprise from a guy who was leaving the fishery. He should have been on the top shelf. But he soon found out about the dangerous shoals that lie in his path.
The first shoal that broke was there was no boat included in the fishing enterprise. Now, if we had sane people in the Department of Fisheries, this would have been no big deal. But to them it was. My son, who was looking after my enterprise since I got sick, found out that he couldn't use my vessels in his enterprise. He could catch my crab using my boat, but he can't use my boat to catch his crab. And I can't transfer my vessel over to him until 2010.
My God, we are family. Why can't we share our fishing gear. We share coffee, tea, eggs and the house, so what's wrong with sharing the boat.
Now, if I was heading out to sea and saw this craft floundered in the water, with the crew all overboard. What should I do? They are all from the DFO, and they called for help. Should I tell them they had to wait until another DFO vessel picks them up? Or should I tell them that they had to stay in the water until 2010?
Thank God, I'm a outport Newfoundlander. We outport Newfoundlanders don't come up with foolish rules to make the going hard.
We've been in Confederation for 60 years and maybe a week. Now I must say, Canada has been good to us. You notice, I said Canada. This means the common people of this country, but as for the Canadian government, they treat us like we are a bunch of brain dead idiots. They act like we can't even handle our own affairs.
How can outport Newfoundland survive if the federal fools keep put stumbling blocks in our way? The outports were created by the fishery. If it weren't for the products of the ocean, there wouldn't be a Newtown, Greenspond or Cape Freels.
Now Joey Smallwood did tell us to burn our boats. We didn't pay attention to it. We kept on at it. We had no choice. For some of the men, and some women, the sea is in their blood. When we sweat, we sweat salt water.
We know that we are living in a changing time. These days, as soon as a young person finishes school, it's off to college. After college, who knows. I know one young women who has been just about everywhere.
But thank God, some of our youths stayed home and carried on a tradition that every generation work at-the fishery.
Danny Williams should give these young Newfies a pat on the back. They are the lifeblood of the outports. If our young blood can't get into the fishery, out little rural towns will end up being a cluster of summer homes or a place to retire to.
Who would want that? It is bad enough to look out the window and see only a couple of children. It'll be terrible to look out and see none.
I just put down our union magazine, the Union Forum. Bill Broderick, a resident of St. Brendan's, said it all in his column, Past, Present and Future. He said some of the young people can make a go in the fishery. All it takes is common sense.
Do the federal fools have any?
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