How do the changes in the industry affect the entire social construct of these peoples lives?
Their lives revolved around the seasons, the cycle of the fish. They worked together, fisherman alongside fisherman, the women with their gardens. Roles were clearly defined, truly a old world culture. When the fishing industry became more modernized, and eventually worn down, it cast people from their work, and oftentimes, their homes. Large fish-plants were erected, small outports were re-located to build larger ‘growth centers’. Fishermen were taken from their independent means of fishing to work in fish plants, sou’westers and oil skins were replaced by rubber aprons and hair nets. Eventually, as the fishing grounds became depleted, the fish plants shut down, and whole communities were left with no means of employment, and no fish in the ocean to start anew. Thousands of fishermen were forced from their homes into cities to find work in factories, whilst the old remained behind to lament the loss of their sons, their homes. In those pivotal years from the 1950s to the 1960s, the en
