The St. George’s resident is quite comfortable fishing out of this port for his first season, but is a veteran fish harvester in his 20th year of fishing crab.
He said the spot where he has pots set in St. George’s Bay, between Crabbes River and the wharf in Cape St. George, has been good the past couple years. For him, selling to the Fogo Island Co-op is working out well.
“They’re a good organization and the fact they are buying out of Little Port Harmon is working out well because the private buyers need competition to keep the prices up where they should be,” he said. “Hopefully they will keep coming here.”
Renny Hickey, another fish harvester out of Little Port Harmon, said the co-op also purchases from him and is working out well and is satisfied with the $2 a pound he’s receiving.
Source: The Western Star