- for two hours and a half. Then you take them out and cool them off and put them in boxes and we were through of them. We went on at that for quite a while, and the new restrictions came in and you had to grade your factory. And Maritime Packers came over here and they were wanting to buy the live lobster. So, the people gradually sold their fish to them. [Maritime Packers] weren't paying enough money so there was a fishermen's union formed here. Down at Pinette . That'd be about 40 years ago. It went on for a long time, but it's gone down now. It's not in existence today. It done good. We got a lot more for our money. We shipped the lobsters ourselves, the live lobsters, to Boston . We put Brody's out of business. They were only paying seven and eight cents for lobsters when we were getting about 17 and 18 when we started. Quite a difference. So, that's the history of the fishing and my experience of it. Nice job. Very interesting hauling up a trap and two and three lobsters in it. Courtesy Lloyd Morrison Neil displaying catch for his fellow fishermen, c.1930. 52 BELFAST PEOPLE