Although North Lake has claimed the title “Tuna Capital of the World,” the fishermen in Naufrage have also caught tuna over the years. According to Eldon MacDonald, his father Alban MacDonald and Gerry D.F. MacDonald caught the first tuna off Naufrage. (31) Melvin Lewis, who fished out of both Naufrage and Red Head Harbor, recalled the 1984—fishing season:

Donnie Squires and myself would go out on other peoples boats to fish tuna. At the end of the year we added up how many tuna we had caught. Donnie had caught forty-seven and lost one, and I had caught forty-six, and had lost one. (32)

THE SEALING INDUSTRY

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David MacEwen standing in front of a Sealer's plane on the Bay ice. Photo courtesy of Lillian & Stephen Petrie.

In the-mid 1960s, St. Peters was used as a base for seal hunters. The base had been moved from the Magdalen Islands to be nearer to the seal herds. In March of 1964, The Eastern Graphic reported:

Accommodation in the village is being pressed to capacity, as more hunters have been moving into the area This is the second year the village has been used towards the end of the season as an operations site. (33)

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