David Cousins . FISHERMAN The sea the sea, the open sea. Ever restless, ever free. Many over the years in this community derived their livelihood from the rivers and the gulf and many had small farms and carried on a farming- fishing occupation. In the Baltic River oyster fishing was popular, clams were plentiful, smelts were fished winter and summer, eels were trapped in the deep waters near the river banks. Lobster fishing provided an annual income and it was a common sight to see and hear the boats chugging away to the fishing grounds and returning at the end of day through Bridge and back home. Before the motor-boat the boats were operated by sails, the early settlers here the Champion, the Walls, the MacDonalds, the MacKenzies were followers of the sea. Others in more recent times William Hunter , Ivan Davison , , " Young Jim " Champion and now the only bonafide fisherman in Baltic is David MacKenzie . Alexander MacKenzie boat and dory at mussell beds Baltic . 23