Great Northern Peninsula

Yeah.

So you know, I'm, I was researching, you know, come the spring, late winter, early spring last year, and I wanted to go to the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland.

I knew that, you know, they're around that area in Labrador.

So I put out-

it actually got.

Sure.

So anyways, I make my way to this, this scene, and I'm driving from, uh, on the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland, and you head out onto this peninsula, and the Port au Choix area, Port Saunders, and there's a long beach that connects the two that's, I'm gonna guess, and maybe say five, seven kilometers long, and in Bonaventure Bay is the bay that all this is happening in.

Okay.

The first entry, Wayne Bartlett, She's Gone Boys, She's Gone on cassette.

[laughs] He's from Carpoon, Great Northern Peninsula.

So let's see, is, is that cassette here in house?

Check holdings.

There's a fin whale stranded near Corner Brook.

And geese, trout, we'll hear about the impact of green crab on the northern peninsula and what one hunter is doing about it.

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Well, a hunter on the Northern Peninsula has identified a problem and is taking it on, and that problem is the invasive European green crab.

Lance Bennett takes videos of his efforts and spreads the word on his Facebook page.

But 100 clicks, you know, this will cover most of the northern or upper half of the island, really, if you look at the map.

So there are wind warnings, of course, in effect could get up to 100 clicks or more on the Avalon, Bonavista, northern peninsula.

So again, gather up anything that can't withstand those kinds of winds.

And this is into, as I said, this evening, tomorrow, into tomorrow evening.

So it was open, say, October 1, just using an example.

So if the mackerel's not in, say, Notre Dame Bay or not in St. Anthony, so it's open for two days, the overall quota's taken.

So I guess someone on the northern peninsula or St. Anthony or Notre Dame Bay is, is out the window kind of thing, right? Because they're not in their area.

But if they had their own quota, they could go and just use an example, if they had a 2,000-pound quota per boat or whatever, You know, they could go when the time is right and when the mackerel's there, when the fish are there, right? But that would make a lot more sense to me, do something like