Being an Irishman, it's amazing listening to the newfoundland accent and how similar it is to my own Irish accent. Newfoundland was known for years as the most Irish place in the world outside of Ireland. I would love to visit one day.
I’m so sad for the 2 people staying. Holding on to a thing no longer there both speaks to how much they loved it, and a dispair high enough to deny it is happening.
Not entirely the case. I think both of them Only moved back to Little Bay Islands not that long ago. I think the reason for staying was more so an opportunity to live a completely self sufficient and secluded lifestyle. Not so much a denial of reality, they were documenting their life on the island on Facebook, but I think they deleted their page, unfortunately n
It is so weird watching Wendover do a documentary on a place an hour away from where I was born. I'm used to watching videos about China, Brazil, the United States, Hong Kong, you know like really important and really populated places. It's like I'm learning about the world but nobody was supposed to know about my world, but that's changed now.
My grandfather watched the fall of the cod industry post confederation due to the Canadian government allowing foreign boats to fish, and my father grew up in the ramefications of it. He told me about all 12 kids living in the old, one room hospital. They collected bottle caps for scrap metal. It destroyed families, and a unique way of life. It's tragic, really.
Its a bit more complex than that. You see the Canadian Government did eventually kick in the EEZ and ban foreign boats fromf ishing the Cod within Canada's EEZ. Those fish were then fished by Canadian Fishermen unwilling to allow the quotas to drop. Essentially they picked up where the foreign fishermen left off and finished the destruction of the Grand Bank Fishing Grounds that the Foreign Fishermen had started. What *may* have saved the Fishery is if at the same time as banning Foreign boats from fishing Canadian waters the Canadian Government had put in place stringent and sensible quotas that the Canadian Fishing fleet followed. By the time the Canadian Government *did* bring in those quotas it was too late, the Cod population had already started to crash and to this day has not recovered. EDIT: Its an absolute classic in mismanagement of a Fishery, it was taught as such at several Universities I worked for as faculty in their Marine Bio departments. Unfortunately it is not the only example, and its not going to be the last, not by a long shot.
So good had to watch it twice. I can't imagine being the only two people left on the island. I also can't imagine having to leave where you lives all your life.
Something similar happened with my grandfather's birth village in the mountains of Western Greek Macedonia, from a population of 300 in the 60s, it rapidly declined to 0 by the late 2000s as the great grandmas and grandpas finally died off, among them being my 99 year old great grandmother.
It happened all over the US when the US Army Corps of Engineers created man made lakes. People didn’t have to move as far but displaced people are still displaced.
This story of overfishing is gonna gradually become something we hear all over the world Overfishing is a huge, overlooked issue that’s feeding into climate change
Oh..it will only be an issue when the effects are drastic. This is a deliberate ignorance and apathy. We may have reached new heights as humans but we don't care for moderation and sustainability. Even in this video they talk about tradition and culture and other nonsense even some hope that one day in future these communities can come back recreate this disaster! One day everything will be fully engineered I guess all food is engineered now...
only government can protect the people from money hungry corporations, or large groups of money hungry individuals, because neither can see the forest for the trees. But so many people are against government regulation. I wonder what Little Bay would be like today if there were reasonable fishing limits earlier.
@@ionymous6733 judging by how they talk about culture and traditions they would have been against it. It was the fish that made this community possible in the first place and yet these people are sad that a certain " way of life" is no more...its just like any community honestly. You move and live in a place because it gives you employment, you move away whether you like ot or not when that job is no more... I wonder how many people say culture and traditions and what not when they are fired from their job elsewhere...
They have one of the most important international airports in the world. they control and guide a huge portion of al the trans Atlantic air traffic due to the position of Gander intl Airport and the Jet Stream.
Gander, St. John's and Stephenville are international, though there are many others like Deer Lake that have flights to major Canadian cities like Toronto.
As a Newfoundlander who as lived in worked in a Mainland city for the last thirty years I was not able to watch this video without wet eyes. My own little community still exists, but it has shrunk by about 80%. I know dozens of communities like this that don't exist anymore. Thank you for this video.
I have never been there, I may never live on an island like that and not even Canadian but still tears welled up in my eyes about how sad this is for the people who lived there for generations. Upsetting to see someone else's greed destroying entire communities.
I wonder how the post-pandemic 'remote work' trend might impact places like this. I know a lot of well paid tech workers who would kill to live in a place like that and work remotely.
I got to move back to Maine because of my remote job, but it's not likely to be a permanent thing. A lot depends on internet infrastructure. If satellite connectivity greatly improves, I think more people will start to spread out. It also depends on the overall remote-work industry/culture evolves over time. Depending on how things play out, more and more people might work remote and businesses will abandon cities... or companies will start hiring cheaper and cheaper labor from international locations and abandon more expensive workers in 1st world countries. Hard to say.
These communities had dial-up internet until like 2007. And groceries get trucked in once per week and are already spoiling on the truck. Outport Newfoundland needs serious infrastructure upgrades before they can accommodate people used to fresh food and internet speeds over 2 MB/s.
Before i forget, i’m not a native islander. But i would like to take a moment to mention that today July 1st is also a day of mourning, and remembering for the Islanders. Let us remember the sacrifice of The Newfoundland Regiment 105 years ago in the trenches of Beaumont Hamel. Of the 801 who stormed over the top, only 68 were left for roll call the next day.
@@Ealsante Unfortunately the Lions led by Donkeys myth is exactly that, a myth. The reasons behind the losses in the battles of WWI are many and varied, and FAR, FAR more complex and wide ranging than 'the Generals were bad'. Lets take one example, Cavalry. Hell, the fact that Cavalry was absolete as Cavalry was recognised in the British Army even before WWI, their cavalry had to undergo the full marksmanship and field qualifications as the infantry. In essence they were being trained as mounted infantry even before WWI started. Problem was, there was nothing to replace it in its fast exploitation role. And do not scream TANKS at me. Ever looked at 1918 tanks? The fast tank, the Whippet, could make maybe 8 miles an hour over perfect terrain (which most of the Western Front most assuredly was NOT). The Mk V heavies could manage 5 across perfect terrain with a tail wind. At Amiens 430 some tanks started the battle, by day three there were 47 runners, the vast majority of the casualties had broken down, 10% of them BEFORE they reached their starting lines. What does this mean? Well it means *everything* in the attack moves at a mans walking speed. Why is this important? Because the enemies reinforcments can be trained in via the vast French and German rail systems (literally designed with a mind to a war against each other) faster than you can break through. So that ONE thing, the fact there is not viable fast exploitation arm able to take advantage of any breakthrough is one of the very things that SHAPED the WWI battlefield on the Western Front. Then you have all the other myriad issues that include, but are not limited to: Increased lethality of weapons (understood before 1914 but no one had an answer) which is what forced troops to dig in in the first place, increased effectiveness of offensive over defensive technologies (until late 1917 - early 1918 when that started to reverse), inability for artillery to fire without pre-registering their guns (not solved until late 1917), inability to outflank as the lines ran from the Swiss Alps to the Sea and there WAS no Flank to attack, the relative stagnation of communications technology which meant attacking troops lacked an effective communications system, the requirement for the entire nations industries to ramp up into total war production (which took time), and so on. The Generals of WWI did in fact learn, the Generals of WWI literally wrote the book on modern combined arms warfare from scratch after they had to throw away every other book they had.....
I'm from NS but my grandfather's family is from NL( Trinity Bay area) and I love when any of the Atlantic Canadian provinces are mentioned in American content. We tend to be forgotten by the rest of Canada, let alone the US
"By the 1970's it was too little, too late." As a canuk, this should be apart of our national anthem. Seems that's the case for a lot of things in Canada.
We got a lot more skeletons in our closet yet. Canada has done a fantastic job at dusting its awful actions under the carpet, and for the majority of the public, keeping it there
Good job telling the specific story of one community, with nods to resettlement and reliance on a single industry which both have plagued the province. Beautiful photos and video scenery!
Recall seeing cod preserved in traditional style in Iceland when stationed at NAS Keflavik in late 1970s. Tried some dried fish and it takes some getting use to, but better then some freeze dried food. Iceland has been successful in managing cod stocks to avoid collapse.
Grew-up in Ontario, live elsewhere, never been to Newfoundland...and no offence, I love my fellow Canadians, but my god I don’t think I could stand living there. How? HOW!?! Far too disconnected from the rest of the country for my taste. XD
@@liesdamnlies3372 i guess that could be a good point for MANY people. the maritimes are great if you don’t like heavily populated places, and want a calmer environment
@@mp40submachinegun81 More commonly known as the abbreviation for the Netherlands, though. Although in that case, they usually just say "Dutch" instead.
@@Codraroll You'd have to be on the spectrum to think somebody was talking about the Netherlands on a video about *N*ewfoundland and *L*abrador. Context clues people.
This is a wonderful, wonderful documentary of so many communities here in Newfoundland. Dozens of such communities are still scratching the clutching at existence. Every one of these communities had generations of inhabitants who lived, fished, and died there. So much artwork and quilts and mittens knit. Stories told around a cup of tea and a hand of cards. The moritorium was the death knell to Newfoundland's heart.
So, whenever you hear anyone from the fishing industry moaning about quotas? This is what happens when you don't have them, this, or worse. When the Somalian government fell apart and the nation collapse into anarchy, guess what vanished too, the Coast Guard. The waters off Somalia was fished into obliteration within a matter of years, forcing the former native fishermen to take up another business, that of piracy. So remember, fish are not an unending resource, or this shit will keep happening.
Have you heard of the tragedy of the commons? Thats what destroyed the fishing stocks both here and the UK etc, cause no one had property rights over that area any longer. For centuries fishermen managed the stocks of the North Sea then French, Spanish, Dutch etc were allowed to fish, and since it wasnt their grounds they took what they could get. Dont forget they opened these waters and the Japanese came. You cannot have "common lands" open to everyone and owned by none, it always leads to disaster
@@nicosmind3 No, this is not tragedy of the commons. This is more like multinational corporations invading a commons that was being managed just fine for centuries. Your username is funny, since you're still using RUclips.
@@aidancollins1591 You can try and deny it all you want, the waters were open to anyone who wanted to fish (as mentioned in this video, or any article on the Common Fisheries policy) and then everyone, including those who previously had ownership, fished until stocks were destroyed.
Sam, I've been watching your channels and listening to your podcasts for years now, but I never thought you'd cover something so close to home. My Mom's family is from Fogo Island, a larger island in Notre Dame Bay. My father's best friend was resettled from Indian Islands under Joey Smallwood. I spent summers on Fogo Island growing up (and can confirm first hand that you couldn't find a cod to save your life in the 90s; it's a different story these days), and my wife and I were married there 5 years ago. You've done a great job here (aside from pronouncing capelin, and throwing in some pictures of fishing in Nova Scotia, where I grew up ;) ) and I'm glad you're here to cover places like this. Thank you.
@@rosairedubrule60 easy to say now, but honestly in the 60's people really had no idea it was even possible to destroy the stock. I still lived in Newfoundland during the first years of the moratorium. I don't think any video no matter how well done can really explain how massive a low it was.
Thank you so so much for your contents. One of my favorite escapes from the realities of life. Makes me calm in stressful situations. Distracts me from all the anxieties by immersing myself into world of planes, logistics, and isolated places. I cannot imagine commuting at 5:45am without watching your videos. Wishing you all the best.
Wow! I've had an ultra-wide 1440p monitor now for like two years, and this is one of the only RUclips videos that has ever fit my monitor perfectly. I love it!
Awesome to see Wendover cover a topic from Newfoundland! I visited Little Bay Islands just last summer and it is such an interesting, but melancholy experience. Lots of communities that have/will go through the same dilemma as Little Bay Islands.
My grandmother was from one of those outports, and her brother wrote a book about growing up there. She left in the early 60s bit I remember visiting the homestead as a child in the 90s. Thank you for sharing this story Sam.
@@rubennavasardyan3501 not quite, the emphasis is on "fin" in finland, whereas the the emphasis is on "land" in newfoundland. Plus its closer to fen than fin. Think "newfenLAND"
@@sagehewson3950 How to tell if someone is Canadian. It’s not “New-Found-Land” it’s...whatever the fuck that is that we say, and it’s not “Toronto” it’s “Torrono”. XD
@@liesdamnlies3372 "Trono" or "Trona" is typical if you are from Toronto while "Torono" (dropping the second T) is more common elsewhere in Canada. Atlantic Canadian and French Canadian accents seem to sound the second T though (and it is sounded in Canadian French, even in Ontarian French accents). The "Trona" sounding is a holdover from the previously common (and now nearly extinct) Toronto urban accent which faded away in the last few decades of the 20th century, being replaced by a regional variation on the Canadian Standard (the common urban accent heard from Vancouver to Ottawa). That distinctive way of saying Toronto was typical of the vowel shifts and consonant dropping patterns of the now rare Toronto accent (the vowels turned non-distinct and the T went from a glottal stop to disappearing entirely with time). Some older folks still have the old Toronto accent (a lot of them live in the 905 belt now) but it's usually muted these days, influenced by the Canadian Standard accent they hear around them now. The old Toronto accent is quite nasal and a bit reminiscent of some old New York accents (like Brooklyn or the Bronx). You can hear traces of it in the old King of Kensington sitcom but even by then the urban accent was shifting. One of my uncles (he's in his 60s by now) is part of the last generation to really have that accent and his "Trona" doesn't sound odd or forced but rather just fits in normally with the phonetics of his natural accent.
Didn't realize I wanted to live in an off grid house in an outport community until now. Thanks for this trip, Sam. This video really got me travelling to canada
If you ever do, there are still many communities on the verge of resettlement here in Newfoundland (and have been for years) which you can still visit. st. Brendan's is the first that comes to mind. There are also resorts, like the woody island resort which are in communities that have already resettled.
Nice to see a close to home history lesson on RUclips. Took a video of the Hazel Mcisaac a few days ago making the crossing to long Island. She used to make both crossings. Now just one 1800 foot journey every few hours. These small communities around here are just they way people know and grew up. 3 minute ferry ride to go home, do groceries, what have you. I have the privilege of living all over and having a comparison. What I call it is were stuck in the 70's, things just stood still here and I couldn't enjoy it more.
This story sounds like an alternate ending to Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs where Flint Lookwood's invention doesn't work. As the years went by the town's population shrank due to a lack of jobs. Now the last ferry from Swallow Falls leaves, leaving a legacy that never even began in the first place.
There are a handful of creators that I will follow to any new channel, and this is one of them. Subscribed before even watching the video because I knew it would be good, and indeed it was.
god i can't begin to imagine how much it must've hurt to leave a place where your ancestry lived for more time than my own country has been around (i'm from italy). really heartbreaking
Absolutely shattering. It's directly tied to the amount of alcoholism in Newfoundland. We didn't learn anything from what happened after the Trail of Tears, or the forced relocation of ethnic peoples in Eastern Europe. When you uproot a community and force them to go live somewhere else that's alien to them, it's like separating a person from their mother. The land is your mother.
Honestly, if they allowed fish farms (growing fish in nets in the water) for cod, and required that a percentage of the fish grown in the nets be released (even as little as 0.1%), they could recover the ecosystem in as little as a few years, to as long as a decade or two. The higher the percentage required to be released in the wild, the faster the recovery, and allowing fish farms would allow people to live on the island full time and profit from doing so. At most, they would need to dredge some land near the island, for the fish farms to have more room for the fish to grow. And cheap biomass can be used to feed the fish, even simply catching cheaper fish, mincing them into pieces, and feeding them to the cod in the farms.
Exactly this. For anyone to think that fishing on such a scale is a sustainable way of life is being fooled. It's shitty that there's a lot of history on the island, and that after many generations, the people have had to move away, but life goes on. These type of people need to learn to break tradition and move outside of their comfort zones.
@@zigmeisterful that’s easy for you to say. The problem is non sustainable practices. Technology creates as many, if not more, problems than it solves.
@@Bob_Smith19 That is only true if you keep technology in isolation from everything else. If you're blindly going aver technological advancement, you do get more problems than you solve. If the actual goal is to improve the living standards and technology is only a tool (bad pun intended), then technology solves more problems than it creates.
@@zigmeisterful It's not about breaking tradition, it's about a mixture of the governing entity making fairly bad decisions, compounded by the people being unwilling to innovate in order to improve their lives. As someone in the video said, their parents and grandparents wanted to get out of the fishing industry, which is why the village ended up abandoned. If they really wanted to continue fishing, even if on a smaller scale, they would have tried a lot of random things until something worked, and the state would have at least partially paid for it. On google maps, I can see at least 2 large golf-like areas, which could be diked to form two large lakes separate from the sea, where fishing would technically be allowed, being separated from the ocean. At the very least, they could use such areas to grow fish from eggs to a size at which they could scavenge the sea, release them at that size while making it into an event which to attract tourists, and then in a few years the population if cod would have replenished to the point where fishing would still be doable, and they would only allow fishing under certain limits, the rest of the fish growing in the diked gulf-lakes. I mean, you wouldn't release all the fish, just what won't fit inside those diked lakes. And those dikes themselves would serve as a tourist spot and as shared USA-Canada research into the usage of dikes to extend the usable land. Specifically, two dikes on the east to close the southern harbor while still using the Goat Island and Macks Island as harbors, and three dikes to close the North Harbor, leaving the south-eastern side of the Harbor Island and the Batt Cove for harbors. Batt Cove could also be closed with a dike, to serve as a lake used to propagate the fish, and water filters could be used to grow more fish than would normally grow for that size of lake, by constantly refreshing the water with new seawater. And that's even if they don't use netting farms anchored to the ground with their tops floating above water. And part of the funding and expertise could also come from environmental fishing advocate groups.
@@zigmeisterful I wonder how I could get in touch with someone from that island. People probably keep in touch, and those ideas could be used to revive the island's popularity and increase it's permanent population.
Coming from the Codfish state (Massachusetts) with Maritime ancestry I'm sorry to hear this. It's also likely that the Portuguese were fishing for Cod early on. It may be down east for Yankees, but it was a reach both way for them. Dried Cod fed much of the world, I remember finding it in markets throughout Mexico.
Awesome to see a story about Newfoundland, thank you for doing this! It's pronounced NEW-fun-land or new-fun-LAND, though, never new-FIN-land or God help us, new-FOUND-land 😃. You did better than most, but I caught some "fins" early on lol
@@E4439Qv5 Nope, no "y" in the "New" part, and the "land" is pronounced with a distinct "a" (not a schwa) and with nearly the same stress as the first syllable most of the time. (Since that's just about the only thing the townies and baywops have ever agreed upon apart from "bakeapple jelly RULEZ!!!!!", it's important to get it right.)
@@holup977 yeah I use SponsorBlock on all my devices: Android with RUclips Vanced, Android TV with SmartTubeNext, and Browser with SponsorBlock Extension
FINALLY SOMEONE PRONOUNCES NEWFOUNDLAND CORRECTLY!! You don't realize how important that is to me. (Even if you got it wrong early in the video haha) Wow it's crazy to see a video about little Bay islands. I was born and raised (and still live) in Newfoundland's capital of St. John's. A lot of other communities in the province look to face the same fate in the future. There are many small towns that are serviced by remote ferries and they are costing the province exorbitant amounts of money. Newfoundland is famous for its numerous tiny rural fishing communities. As the cod industry died out these communities either thrived on the families of fishermen staying, or people using them as vacation homes. It's looking like as time goes on, these towns will begin to fall one by one as they are extremely difficult to service from a governmental perspective whether it be medical care, food delivery, etc. Eventually these amazing relics of the past cod industry will be far fewer than today. If you ever visit Newfoundland I highly recommend taking a trip to a few of these purports of your choice (we literally have HUNDREDS). Hope you enjoyed speaking to the locals, and hopefully their Newfie accents weren't too difficult to understand! Really enjoyed this video and it's pretty much completely historically accurate. Great work
6:30 The village: "We're self reliant". Also the village: Electricity shuts off immediately. No solar battery bank, no 10' buried pipes for heat, no tidal power wave generators.
Oh God, don't ever watch Chills or Nexpo. They have massive pauses, especially Chills, that sometimes makes it seem like they're trying a little too hard to be "spooky".
I love the long winding roads with no sidewalks on either side just old iron ore gravel scattered along the roadways with long unkept grass growing up in the summer. The sound of bleam blowers rustling in the wind and the smell of salt water in the air. Man what a feeling.
A wonderful and moving account of the death of a community. My uncle was a seaman nearly all his life, sailing in tankers, Deep-Sea tugs, freighters, and a great many trawlers, and it was the collapse of the Newfoundland fisheries and the Icelandic Cod Wars that eventually forced him to 'swallow the anchor' (and pretty much ended the UK's distant-water fishing industry). One quirky little point about the interview with the older guy in this video (which I've also heard in the voices of some older Newfies I've known) is the clear remnants of a West-of-Ireland accent which has probably been passed down over three or four generations since his ancestors arrived there in the 19th century... even the accents tell tales of the past.
One amazing thing about resettlement in the old days is that people would take their entire house with them. You can find pictures of houses floating on the ocean, going to their new home town.
This hit me harder than it would have a year ago. I'm currently looking at possibly losing the house I grew up in. My memory isn't the best so I need triggers for it and there's nothing like the house I grew up in for that.
As a Norwegian, that know we still have a thriving cod industry around the Lofoten islands, I kind of wonder why our quotas and why the fish we get here, don't "infect" the dead zones across the Atlantic... We have been exporting dry fish to the Spanish and Portuguese bacalao pots for centuries.
The massive numbers of harp seals in the area is a large factor in keeping the population down, but in the last few years a lot more great Whites are being see. hopefully that will help bring some more balance.
This is really sad and even more so considering how we have ruined many fishing lanes. It will only get worse with nations like the PRC literally letting fleets ruin any area they can touch.
God I can’t get through this video. I love the content so much, but I can’t listen because all my brain is focusing on is the repeating. Pattern. Of. Pauses.
Excellent history lesson wrapped in outstanding content and high production value video. Superb edit and soundtrack as well. Too bad the message will fall on deaf ears for most. Thank You for your efforts...so very well done.
literally brings this up in the first 30 seconds of the video. Do you not understand how you spread interest and let other people know about your other channels and projects?
I had a leadhand in a boat building company in BC who was born and raised on this island(s) He brought us some salted cod and hardtack (hard, dry uneven bread) to show us what he ate for breakfast when he was a kid. We passed on the seal meat lol. He taught me a lot about boat building and was a good friend. I miss him
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Being an Irishman, it's amazing listening to the newfoundland accent and how similar it is to my own Irish accent. Newfoundland was known for years as the most Irish place in the world outside of Ireland. I would love to visit one day.
I didn't even realize that the video was about Canada until a minute or two in and I am Canadian. They have quite the unique accent, to say the least.
You’d love it, its a wonderful place.
You ever hear about Newfie math? What’s three plus three? Three (tree plus tree equals tree)
@@hotspothawkins6453 haha yeah I pronounce it as tree also
It's so weird. It sounds like a few of the west coast accents mashed together or something.
"cod are both perpetually lethargic and ceaselessly hungry"
Didn't realise I was a cod
cod dang it
how cod you
cod you not
Man all these jokes are honestly a little fishy
Cod moves in mysterious ways.
"Cod is dead, Cod will remain dead, and we have killed it." - Fieschtze
Nice
"Cod is dead, and no one cares." -- Marlin Manson
Cod is next to codlyness -Benjamin Franklin president of Pennsylvania.
Dude I spit my drink when I read "Fieschtze"!
@@MrGared22 I wasn't drinking but that definitely gave me a bit of a fit.
I’m so sad for the 2 people staying. Holding on to a thing no longer there both speaks to how much they loved it, and a dispair high enough to deny it is happening.
Not entirely the case. I think both of them
Only moved back to Little Bay Islands not that long ago. I think the reason for staying was more so an opportunity to live a completely self sufficient and secluded lifestyle. Not so much a denial of reality, they were documenting their life on the island on Facebook, but I think they deleted their page, unfortunately n
It is so weird watching Wendover do a documentary on a place an hour away from where I was born. I'm used to watching videos about China, Brazil, the United States, Hong Kong, you know like really important and really populated places. It's like I'm learning about the world but nobody was supposed to know about my world, but that's changed now.
Yep. I am from St. John's, never thought I would see him do a video on a place here LOL
Newfoundland and Labrador seems like a lovely place.
You are blessed to be so close to heaven on Earth.
lol why Hong Kong?
Do you feel like history was confiscated?
My grandfather watched the fall of the cod industry post confederation due to the Canadian government allowing foreign boats to fish, and my father grew up in the ramefications of it. He told me about all 12 kids living in the old, one room hospital. They collected bottle caps for scrap metal. It destroyed families, and a unique way of life. It's tragic, really.
Foreign interests bought the canadian government.
@@jeremietellier3116 Oh damn you just said what I was going to say.
Its a bit more complex than that. You see the Canadian Government did eventually kick in the EEZ and ban foreign boats fromf ishing the Cod within Canada's EEZ. Those fish were then fished by Canadian Fishermen unwilling to allow the quotas to drop. Essentially they picked up where the foreign fishermen left off and finished the destruction of the Grand Bank Fishing Grounds that the Foreign Fishermen had started.
What *may* have saved the Fishery is if at the same time as banning Foreign boats from fishing Canadian waters the Canadian Government had put in place stringent and sensible quotas that the Canadian Fishing fleet followed. By the time the Canadian Government *did* bring in those quotas it was too late, the Cod population had already started to crash and to this day has not recovered.
EDIT: Its an absolute classic in mismanagement of a Fishery, it was taught as such at several Universities I worked for as faculty in their Marine Bio departments. Unfortunately it is not the only example, and its not going to be the last, not by a long shot.
So good had to watch it twice. I can't imagine being the only two people left on the island. I also can't imagine having to leave where you lives all your life.
Something similar happened with my grandfather's birth village in the mountains of Western Greek Macedonia, from a population of 300 in the 60s, it rapidly declined to 0 by the late 2000s as the great grandmas and grandpas finally died off, among them being my 99 year old great grandmother.
It happened all over the US when the US Army Corps of Engineers created man made lakes. People didn’t have to move as far but displaced people are still displaced.
I can't imagine living my whole life on the same island.
@@sketchesofpayne I couldn’t imagine living my whole life in the same state.
I notice from your conjugation of lives that you may be from Newfoundland - townie or bayman?
This story of overfishing is gonna gradually become something we hear all over the world
Overfishing is a huge, overlooked issue that’s feeding into climate change
Oh..it will only be an issue when the effects are drastic. This is a deliberate ignorance and apathy. We may have reached new heights as humans but we don't care for moderation and sustainability. Even in this video they talk about tradition and culture and other nonsense even some hope that one day in future these communities can come back recreate this disaster! One day everything will be fully engineered I guess all food is engineered now...
@@altrag just saw on reddit, a sting that exposed some Exxon person lobbying for more oil stuff....
only government can protect the people from money hungry corporations, or large groups of money hungry individuals, because neither can see the forest for the trees. But so many people are against government regulation. I wonder what Little Bay would be like today if there were reasonable fishing limits earlier.
@@ionymous6733 judging by how they talk about culture and traditions they would have been against it. It was the fish that made this community possible in the first place and yet these people are sad that a certain " way of life" is no more...its just like any community honestly. You move and live in a place because it gives you employment, you move away whether you like ot or not when that job is no more... I wonder how many people say culture and traditions and what not when they are fired from their job elsewhere...
You should see how Chinese "fishing fleets" are actually just gathering absolutely everything in wide swaths for miles.
Disturbing.
They need an international airport or major logistics hub to keep Wendover interested in this tiny island going forward.
Don't open that link. It's a "the story of adam (rick)roll"
@hv a gooday Not what I was expecting but okay
They have one of the most important international airports in the world. they control and guide a huge portion of al the trans Atlantic air traffic due to the position of Gander intl Airport and the Jet Stream.
No, they need a Brick Factory!
Gander, St. John's and Stephenville are international, though there are many others like Deer Lake that have flights to major Canadian cities like Toronto.
Stunning place. I cried when my vacation to Newfoundland ended. It was the only holiday where I wasn't ready to go home.
As a Newfoundlander who as lived in worked in a Mainland city for the last thirty years I was not able to watch this video without wet eyes. My own little community still exists, but it has shrunk by about 80%. I know dozens of communities like this that don't exist anymore. Thank you for this video.
I have never been there, I may never live on an island like that and not even Canadian but still tears welled up in my eyes about how sad this is for the people who lived there for generations. Upsetting to see someone else's greed destroying entire communities.
I wonder how the post-pandemic 'remote work' trend might impact places like this. I know a lot of well paid tech workers who would kill to live in a place like that and work remotely.
I got to move back to Maine because of my remote job, but it's not likely to be a permanent thing.
A lot depends on internet infrastructure. If satellite connectivity greatly improves, I think more people will start to spread out. It also depends on the overall remote-work industry/culture evolves over time. Depending on how things play out, more and more people might work remote and businesses will abandon cities... or companies will start hiring cheaper and cheaper labor from international locations and abandon more expensive workers in 1st world countries.
Hard to say.
@@Carakav +1
satellite internet will improve greatly
Hard to say. Especially when the place was cut off from services needed to keep it and remote work running like heat and electricity...
It would probably take thousands if not millions to build a solar & water powered electrical grid for even just 10 houses + fire + water.
These communities had dial-up internet until like 2007. And groceries get trucked in once per week and are already spoiling on the truck. Outport Newfoundland needs serious infrastructure upgrades before they can accommodate people used to fresh food and internet speeds over 2 MB/s.
Before i forget, i’m not a native islander. But i would like to take a moment to mention that today July 1st is also a day of mourning, and remembering for the Islanders. Let us remember the sacrifice of The Newfoundland Regiment 105 years ago in the trenches of Beaumont Hamel. Of the 801 who stormed over the top, only 68 were left for roll call the next day.
Ah, the Battle of the Somme. So many lions led into death by donkeys. Theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die...
@@Ealsante i weep at the sacrifice. i am angered by the ignorance.
@@Ealsante Unfortunately the Lions led by Donkeys myth is exactly that, a myth. The reasons behind the losses in the battles of WWI are many and varied, and FAR, FAR more complex and wide ranging than 'the Generals were bad'.
Lets take one example, Cavalry. Hell, the fact that Cavalry was absolete as Cavalry was recognised in the British Army even before WWI, their cavalry had to undergo the full marksmanship and field qualifications as the infantry. In essence they were being trained as mounted infantry even before WWI started. Problem was, there was nothing to replace it in its fast exploitation role.
And do not scream TANKS at me. Ever looked at 1918 tanks? The fast tank, the Whippet, could make maybe 8 miles an hour over perfect terrain (which most of the Western Front most assuredly was NOT). The Mk V heavies could manage 5 across perfect terrain with a tail wind. At Amiens 430 some tanks started the battle, by day three there were 47 runners, the vast majority of the casualties had broken down, 10% of them BEFORE they reached their starting lines.
What does this mean? Well it means *everything* in the attack moves at a mans walking speed. Why is this important? Because the enemies reinforcments can be trained in via the vast French and German rail systems (literally designed with a mind to a war against each other) faster than you can break through.
So that ONE thing, the fact there is not viable fast exploitation arm able to take advantage of any breakthrough is one of the very things that SHAPED the WWI battlefield on the Western Front. Then you have all the other myriad issues that include, but are not limited to:
Increased lethality of weapons (understood before 1914 but no one had an answer) which is what forced troops to dig in in the first place, increased effectiveness of offensive over defensive technologies (until late 1917 - early 1918 when that started to reverse), inability for artillery to fire without pre-registering their guns (not solved until late 1917), inability to outflank as the lines ran from the Swiss Alps to the Sea and there WAS no Flank to attack, the relative stagnation of communications technology which meant attacking troops lacked an effective communications system, the requirement for the entire nations industries to ramp up into total war production (which took time), and so on.
The Generals of WWI did in fact learn, the Generals of WWI literally wrote the book on modern combined arms warfare from scratch after they had to throw away every other book they had.....
As a Newfie, it's super awesome to see a channel I'm subbed to talk about Newfoundland!! We don't get a lot of exposure in media. xD
from ontario and one day I will make the journey that far east
Yes it's pretty cool.
Newfie is the new selfie
exdee less than three
I'm from NS but my grandfather's family is from NL( Trinity Bay area) and I love when any of the Atlantic Canadian provinces are mentioned in American content. We tend to be forgotten by the rest of Canada, let alone the US
Why did this video feel so emotional man, I really felt for all the families who had to leave behind such a big piece of their heritage and history
"By the 1970's it was too little, too late."
As a canuk, this should be apart of our national anthem. Seems that's the case for a lot of things in Canada.
Man, being Canadian right now is one hell of an emotional roller coaster
We got a lot more skeletons in our closet yet. Canada has done a fantastic job at dusting its awful actions under the carpet, and for the majority of the public, keeping it there
Amen to that
@@nuarius it's easy to get people to forget and keep it hidden when you live next to the U.S., which is far worse comparatively
Canada is not unlike the UK in that respect. The apparent civility and politeness hides some awful, horrific truths.
@@A.Filthy.Casual LOL it’s really not much worse. That’s just the narrative by idiots on the internet lacking context, nuance and information.
Good job telling the specific story of one community, with nods to resettlement and reliance on a single industry which both have plagued the province. Beautiful photos and video scenery!
Recall seeing cod preserved in traditional style in Iceland when stationed at NAS Keflavik in late 1970s. Tried some dried fish and it takes some getting use to, but better then some freeze dried food. Iceland has been successful in managing cod stocks to avoid collapse.
Not allowing foreign fisheries in to pillage stocks probably.
@@janinewetzler5037 aka Cod War against UK
The fact that it was unanimous made it even sadder.
Imagine moving to a new place, leaving your homeland, and being in lockdown for more than an year, must have been hell twice over
Imagine of they held out just a little longer, they could've skipped the pandemic all together
Wow! My home province of Newfoundland made it to wendover!! I love living here, I remember seeing the final days of little bay islands!
There's a lot about your home province on Rare Earth
why is everyone from newfoundland finding this video
@@EvanAviator it's what we do. Pride like no other.
Grew-up in Ontario, live elsewhere, never been to Newfoundland...and no offence, I love my fellow Canadians, but my god I don’t think I could stand living there. How? HOW!?! Far too disconnected from the rest of the country for my taste. XD
@@liesdamnlies3372 i guess that could be a good point for MANY people. the maritimes are great if you don’t like heavily populated places, and want a calmer environment
NL’er here, glad too see an episode on here that I actually know something about 😂.
@Funtime Florian NL is the abbreviation for Newfoundland & labrador.
@@mp40submachinegun81 More commonly known as the abbreviation for the Netherlands, though. Although in that case, they usually just say "Dutch" instead.
@@Codraroll You'd have to be on the spectrum to think somebody was talking about the Netherlands on a video about *N*ewfoundland and *L*abrador. Context clues people.
This is a wonderful, wonderful documentary of so many communities here in Newfoundland. Dozens of such communities are still scratching the clutching at existence.
Every one of these communities had generations of inhabitants who lived, fished, and died there. So much artwork and quilts and mittens knit. Stories told around a cup of tea and a hand of cards.
The moritorium was the death knell to Newfoundland's heart.
So, whenever you hear anyone from the fishing industry moaning about quotas? This is what happens when you don't have them, this, or worse.
When the Somalian government fell apart and the nation collapse into anarchy, guess what vanished too, the Coast Guard. The waters off Somalia was fished into obliteration within a matter of years, forcing the former native fishermen to take up another business, that of piracy.
So remember, fish are not an unending resource, or this shit will keep happening.
it goes both ways sometimes theres not enough quotas sometimes theres too much quotas
Have you heard of the tragedy of the commons? Thats what destroyed the fishing stocks both here and the UK etc, cause no one had property rights over that area any longer. For centuries fishermen managed the stocks of the North Sea then French, Spanish, Dutch etc were allowed to fish, and since it wasnt their grounds they took what they could get.
Dont forget they opened these waters and the Japanese came. You cannot have "common lands" open to everyone and owned by none, it always leads to disaster
@@nicosmind3 No, this is not tragedy of the commons. This is more like multinational corporations invading a commons that was being managed just fine for centuries.
Your username is funny, since you're still using RUclips.
The Somalian coast wasn't depleted by Somalis
@@aidancollins1591 You can try and deny it all you want, the waters were open to anyone who wanted to fish (as mentioned in this video, or any article on the Common Fisheries policy) and then everyone, including those who previously had ownership, fished until stocks were destroyed.
Sam, I've been watching your channels and listening to your podcasts for years now, but I never thought you'd cover something so close to home. My Mom's family is from Fogo Island, a larger island in Notre Dame Bay. My father's best friend was resettled from Indian Islands under Joey Smallwood. I spent summers on Fogo Island growing up (and can confirm first hand that you couldn't find a cod to save your life in the 90s; it's a different story these days), and my wife and I were married there 5 years ago. You've done a great job here (aside from pronouncing capelin, and throwing in some pictures of fishing in Nova Scotia, where I grew up ;) ) and I'm glad you're here to cover places like this. Thank you.
Tell me how I knew this was newfoundland and Labrador without ever hearing it before. Something about that first map told me it was
Is it possible if was the big Newfoundland decal on the ferry in the first scene? 😅
I live in Newfoundland ☺️ I knew it right away!
Abandoned cold island screams Newfoundland And Labrador always, anyways.
@@Shovlaxnet that is true 😅 it kind of just cries east coast
Little Bay island and newfoundland Island have the same haircut
This is one of the best videos you have ever produced, and legitimately left tears in my eyes. Thank you.
Surreal seeing areas that I grew up around on one of my favourite channels, thanks Sam, great video.
I’m so glad there are people like you and your team documenting stories like these.
This is depressing on so many levels.
And the most depressing thing is this is basically climate change in small. We'll just resettle too once we're done destroying our livelihood. /s
This is white supremacy at it's most Canadian.
@@wkdravenna want to run us through that?
@@wkdravenna how, is everything just race vs race to you
@@ipadair7345 says the patriarcist !
OMG I absolutely loved the extremities podcast and I was so upset to see no new episodes or destinations, so excited for the channel
My family is from Newfoundland. Thank you for bringing some attention and exposure to this beautiful and unique part of Canada!!
“Cod are both perpetually lethargic and ceaselessly hungry” I can relate😩😭
I think this is my new favorite channel of yours
Very interesting to hear about these kinds of places that you never hear about normally
Talk to any Newfie and they’ll tell you about how joining Canada ruined the Cod, and after the Cod was gone people had no choice but to leave on mass
te us and canada should have put grands banks off limits
@@rosairedubrule60 easy to say now, but honestly in the 60's people really had no idea it was even possible to destroy the stock. I still lived in Newfoundland during the first years of the moratorium. I don't think any video no matter how well done can really explain how massive a low it was.
Thank you so so much for your contents. One of my favorite escapes from the realities of life. Makes me calm in stressful situations. Distracts me from all the anxieties by immersing myself into world of planes, logistics, and isolated places. I cannot imagine commuting at 5:45am without watching your videos. Wishing you all the best.
Wow! I've had an ultra-wide 1440p monitor now for like two years, and this is one of the only RUclips videos that has ever fit my monitor perfectly. I love it!
Awesome to see Wendover cover a topic from Newfoundland! I visited Little Bay Islands just last summer and it is such an interesting, but melancholy experience. Lots of communities that have/will go through the same dilemma as Little Bay Islands.
Little Bay: Let's see how the rest of the world is like
World: Covid-19
So much this.
hah
My grandmother was from one of those outports, and her brother wrote a book about growing up there. She left in the early 60s bit I remember visiting the homestead as a child in the 90s. Thank you for sharing this story Sam.
As a finnish person, I keep hearing "New Finland" when you say Newfoundland :D
Because that's how it's pronounced. We all call it like that here in Canada.
@@rubennavasardyan3501 not quite, the emphasis is on "fin" in finland, whereas the the emphasis is on "land" in newfoundland. Plus its closer to fen than fin. Think "newfenLAND"
@@sagehewson3950 How to tell if someone is Canadian. It’s not “New-Found-Land” it’s...whatever the fuck that is that we say, and it’s not “Toronto” it’s “Torrono”. XD
@@liesdamnlies3372 tronah
@@liesdamnlies3372 "Trono" or "Trona" is typical if you are from Toronto while "Torono" (dropping the second T) is more common elsewhere in Canada. Atlantic Canadian and French Canadian accents seem to sound the second T though (and it is sounded in Canadian French, even in Ontarian French accents).
The "Trona" sounding is a holdover from the previously common (and now nearly extinct) Toronto urban accent which faded away in the last few decades of the 20th century, being replaced by a regional variation on the Canadian Standard (the common urban accent heard from Vancouver to Ottawa). That distinctive way of saying Toronto was typical of the vowel shifts and consonant dropping patterns of the now rare Toronto accent (the vowels turned non-distinct and the T went from a glottal stop to disappearing entirely with time).
Some older folks still have the old Toronto accent (a lot of them live in the 905 belt now) but it's usually muted these days, influenced by the Canadian Standard accent they hear around them now. The old Toronto accent is quite nasal and a bit reminiscent of some old New York accents (like Brooklyn or the Bronx). You can hear traces of it in the old King of Kensington sitcom but even by then the urban accent was shifting. One of my uncles (he's in his 60s by now) is part of the last generation to really have that accent and his "Trona" doesn't sound odd or forced but rather just fits in normally with the phonetics of his natural accent.
What a beautiful video! Congratulations on your new channel and all your future accomplishments!
I thought i was having dejavu before i saw it was a post on the main channel lol. Im loving the Extremities content so far, keep up the good work!
Didn't realize I wanted to live in an off grid house in an outport community until now. Thanks for this trip, Sam. This video really got me travelling to canada
If you ever do, there are still many communities on the verge of resettlement here in Newfoundland (and have been for years) which you can still visit. st. Brendan's is the first that comes to mind. There are also resorts, like the woody island resort which are in communities that have already resettled.
Beautiful story, thank you for making something about Newfoundland
Nice to see a close to home history lesson on RUclips. Took a video of the Hazel Mcisaac a few days ago making the crossing to long Island. She used to make both crossings. Now just one 1800 foot journey every few hours. These small communities around here are just they way people know and grew up. 3 minute ferry ride to go home, do groceries, what have you. I have the privilege of living all over and having a comparison. What I call it is were stuck in the 70's, things just stood still here and I couldn't enjoy it more.
This story sounds like an alternate ending to Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs where Flint Lookwood's invention doesn't work. As the years went by the town's population shrank due to a lack of jobs. Now the last ferry from Swallow Falls leaves, leaving a legacy that never even began in the first place.
This is funny and depressing at the same time. Maybe the writers knew of this issue.
Oh gee wizz! Thanks for the depression!
There are a handful of creators that I will follow to any new channel, and this is one of them. Subscribed before even watching the video because I knew it would be good, and indeed it was.
god i can't begin to imagine how much it must've hurt to leave a place where your ancestry lived for more time than my own country has been around (i'm from italy). really heartbreaking
Absolutely shattering. It's directly tied to the amount of alcoholism in Newfoundland. We didn't learn anything from what happened after the Trail of Tears, or the forced relocation of ethnic peoples in Eastern Europe. When you uproot a community and force them to go live somewhere else that's alien to them, it's like separating a person from their mother. The land is your mother.
Happens all the time with countries having war or starvation and immigrants fleeing for a better life. It’s a sad reality
Captivating niche topic and excellent production. Looks great on 21:9 native screens. Good luck with the new channel!
When your about to watch the video but then you realized you already watched it on extremities.
The production quality of this video is out of this world
Oooh, an abandoned place! I’m immediately more interested.
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@@6z0 The danger is what makes exploring abandoned places exciting.
I super duper love learning about remote places! Especially these icy places
It took me 7 minutes of the video to realise that you're not saying "New Finland".
Also, excited about the new channel!!!
I can’t believe that you made a video about our little Newfoundland. I and other Newfoundlanders thank you for recognizing our province.
Wow always love when Big RUclipsrs talk about my home,Newfoundland😌
i was a massive fan of the pod, glad to see the concept return
Honestly, if they allowed fish farms (growing fish in nets in the water) for cod, and required that a percentage of the fish grown in the nets be released (even as little as 0.1%), they could recover the ecosystem in as little as a few years, to as long as a decade or two. The higher the percentage required to be released in the wild, the faster the recovery, and allowing fish farms would allow people to live on the island full time and profit from doing so. At most, they would need to dredge some land near the island, for the fish farms to have more room for the fish to grow. And cheap biomass can be used to feed the fish, even simply catching cheaper fish, mincing them into pieces, and feeding them to the cod in the farms.
Exactly this. For anyone to think that fishing on such a scale is a sustainable way of life is being fooled. It's shitty that there's a lot of history on the island, and that after many generations, the people have had to move away, but life goes on. These type of people need to learn to break tradition and move outside of their comfort zones.
@@zigmeisterful that’s easy for you to say. The problem is non sustainable practices. Technology creates as many, if not more, problems than it solves.
@@Bob_Smith19 That is only true if you keep technology in isolation from everything else. If you're blindly going aver technological advancement, you do get more problems than you solve. If the actual goal is to improve the living standards and technology is only a tool (bad pun intended), then technology solves more problems than it creates.
@@zigmeisterful It's not about breaking tradition, it's about a mixture of the governing entity making fairly bad decisions, compounded by the people being unwilling to innovate in order to improve their lives. As someone in the video said, their parents and grandparents wanted to get out of the fishing industry, which is why the village ended up abandoned. If they really wanted to continue fishing, even if on a smaller scale, they would have tried a lot of random things until something worked, and the state would have at least partially paid for it.
On google maps, I can see at least 2 large golf-like areas, which could be diked to form two large lakes separate from the sea, where fishing would technically be allowed, being separated from the ocean. At the very least, they could use such areas to grow fish from eggs to a size at which they could scavenge the sea, release them at that size while making it into an event which to attract tourists, and then in a few years the population if cod would have replenished to the point where fishing would still be doable, and they would only allow fishing under certain limits, the rest of the fish growing in the diked gulf-lakes. I mean, you wouldn't release all the fish, just what won't fit inside those diked lakes.
And those dikes themselves would serve as a tourist spot and as shared USA-Canada research into the usage of dikes to extend the usable land. Specifically, two dikes on the east to close the southern harbor while still using the Goat Island and Macks Island as harbors, and three dikes to close the North Harbor, leaving the south-eastern side of the Harbor Island and the Batt Cove for harbors. Batt Cove could also be closed with a dike, to serve as a lake used to propagate the fish, and water filters could be used to grow more fish than would normally grow for that size of lake, by constantly refreshing the water with new seawater.
And that's even if they don't use netting farms anchored to the ground with their tops floating above water. And part of the funding and expertise could also come from environmental fishing advocate groups.
@@zigmeisterful I wonder how I could get in touch with someone from that island. People probably keep in touch, and those ideas could be used to revive the island's popularity and increase it's permanent population.
You deserve far more views for such an amazing content.
2019 was the end of so many eras.
Coming from the Codfish state (Massachusetts) with Maritime ancestry I'm sorry to hear this.
It's also likely that the Portuguese were fishing for Cod early on. It may be down east for Yankees, but it was a reach both way for them.
Dried Cod fed much of the world, I remember finding it in markets throughout Mexico.
Awesome to see a story about Newfoundland, thank you for doing this! It's pronounced NEW-fun-land or new-fun-LAND, though, never new-FIN-land or God help us, new-FOUND-land 😃. You did better than most, but I caught some "fins" early on lol
Nyoof'nlund?
It's spelled Newfoundland so I'm gonna say new-found-land.
@@SCIFIguy64 well, you're saying it wrong. If you don't mind being wrong, go ahead 🤷♂️
@@E4439Qv5 Nope, no "y" in the "New" part, and the "land" is pronounced with a distinct "a" (not a schwa) and with nearly the same stress as the first syllable most of the time. (Since that's just about the only thing the townies and baywops have ever agreed upon apart from "bakeapple jelly RULEZ!!!!!", it's important to get it right.)
Just pronounce it like understand.
Outstanding video. Fascinating, sad, and beautifully presented.
No Curiositystream sponsor? This feels odd…
Good, because I'm already a member and I don't like seeing it over and over again despite the fact, lol
@@Y.M... do you know of sponsor block?
@@holup977 yeah I use SponsorBlock on all my devices: Android with RUclips Vanced, Android TV with SmartTubeNext, and Browser with SponsorBlock Extension
@@PeterNjeim no way!! Me too
@@holup977 What is it?
Loved the video! Now I'm gonna head on over to Extremities and watch it again!
FINALLY SOMEONE PRONOUNCES NEWFOUNDLAND CORRECTLY!! You don't realize how important that is to me. (Even if you got it wrong early in the video haha)
Wow it's crazy to see a video about little Bay islands. I was born and raised (and still live) in Newfoundland's capital of St. John's. A lot of other communities in the province look to face the same fate in the future.
There are many small towns that are serviced by remote ferries and they are costing the province exorbitant amounts of money. Newfoundland is famous for its numerous tiny rural fishing communities. As the cod industry died out these communities either thrived on the families of fishermen staying, or people using them as vacation homes. It's looking like as time goes on, these towns will begin to fall one by one as they are extremely difficult to service from a governmental perspective whether it be medical care, food delivery, etc. Eventually these amazing relics of the past cod industry will be far fewer than today. If you ever visit Newfoundland I highly recommend taking a trip to a few of these purports of your choice (we literally have HUNDREDS).
Hope you enjoyed speaking to the locals, and hopefully their Newfie accents weren't too difficult to understand! Really enjoyed this video and it's pretty much completely historically accurate. Great work
Having grown up in a small fishing community in Newfoundland, this hits pretty close to home.
6:30
The village: "We're self reliant".
Also the village: Electricity shuts off immediately.
No solar battery bank, no 10' buried pipes for heat, no tidal power wave generators.
The unnecessary
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Oh God, don't ever watch Chills or Nexpo. They have massive pauses, especially Chills, that sometimes makes it seem like they're trying a little too hard to be "spooky".
this is probably one of his worst most boring videos. This story could have been told in 10 minutes.
@@kimjunguny ouch kim
Yes. Thank you.
I love the long winding roads with no sidewalks on either side just old iron ore gravel scattered along the roadways with long unkept grass growing up in the summer. The sound of bleam blowers rustling in the wind and the smell of salt water in the air. Man what a feeling.
Me, not even a Canadian, have a numb heart after seeing this. Everyone of us need to do their part to support and practice sustainability.
A wonderful and moving account of the death of a community. My uncle was a seaman nearly all his life, sailing in tankers, Deep-Sea tugs, freighters, and a great many trawlers, and it was the collapse of the Newfoundland fisheries and the Icelandic Cod Wars that eventually forced him to 'swallow the anchor' (and pretty much ended the UK's distant-water fishing industry). One quirky little point about the interview with the older guy in this video (which I've also heard in the voices of some older Newfies I've known) is the clear remnants of a West-of-Ireland accent which has probably been passed down over three or four generations since his ancestors arrived there in the 19th century... even the accents tell tales of the past.
Extremitiea is flagged as a kids channel, meaning that you cannot turn on notifications. Unless you fix that, Extremities is completely doa.
I thank you, on behalf of all ultrawide users, for releasing this video in a 21:9 format, and not 16:9 with black bars on bottom+top. Thank you
One amazing thing about resettlement in the old days is that people would take their entire house with them. You can find pictures of houses floating on the ocean, going to their new home town.
This hit me harder than it would have a year ago. I'm currently looking at possibly losing the house I grew up in. My memory isn't the best so I need triggers for it and there's nothing like the house I grew up in for that.
As a Norwegian, that know we still have a thriving cod industry around the Lofoten islands, I kind of wonder why our quotas and why the fish we get here, don't "infect" the dead zones across the Atlantic... We have been exporting dry fish to the Spanish and Portuguese bacalao pots for centuries.
It's possibly because cod live on the continental shelf, and don't really venture across vast open waters.
The massive numbers of harp seals in the area is a large factor in keeping the population down, but in the last few years a lot more great Whites are being see. hopefully that will help bring some more balance.
Really appreciate who Wendover/Extremities Team, Capture and Digitally tell Stories of meaningful, people, places and projects.
This is really sad and even more so considering how we have ruined many fishing lanes. It will only get worse with nations like the PRC literally letting fleets ruin any area they can touch.
Amazing doc, thanks for mentioning the Basques!
God I can’t get through this video. I love the content so much, but I can’t listen because all my brain is focusing on is the repeating. Pattern. Of. Pauses.
super beautiful story....super thanks for sharing....super amazing...thanks....
"This episode is sponsored by....... well, us I guess
Excellent history lesson wrapped in outstanding content and high production value video. Superb edit and soundtrack as well. Too bad the message will fall on deaf ears for most.
Thank You for your efforts...so very well done.
I just realized that these are all places you need a plane to get to so it makes sense that Wendover is doing it
Two of the three islands he's made videos on can only be reached by boat
@@KnightThomashboats are just planes that swim instead of fly
Thank you for this! I love these and glad I can see them now
Re-upload?
advertising for the new channel
yes like he explained at the beginning of the video you commented on
@@jordanwardan7588 old explanation. This channel has been around for a while
Just subscribed to Wendover Productions! Looking forward to more content like this!
This content is fucking amazing, excited to see more on the new Channel!
Looking forward to what content the new channel will bring!
I'd live there if I can have a decent internet connection
Starlink!
Excellent video on the struggles in Newfoundland.
Teacher: I hope you took good notes:
My notes: "cod important"
Did this teacher work in a "clash room"? 18:26 and 18:29 😉
That was an amazing video. I never knew about these villages and I live in Québec, right next door. Thanks for sharing.
Wasn't this on the Extremities channel already?
Yep
Exactly the point. Post the video here to drum up interest for the Extremities channel.
literally brings this up in the first 30 seconds of the video. Do you not understand how you spread interest and let other people know about your other channels and projects?
@@AceSimGaming There is a browser addon called SponsorBlock which by default skips that segment. I guess he is using that as well.
@@qlum you got it!
I had a leadhand in a boat building company in BC who was born and raised on this island(s) He brought us some salted cod and hardtack (hard, dry uneven bread) to show us what he ate for breakfast when he was a kid. We passed on the seal meat lol. He taught me a lot about boat building and was a good friend. I miss him
"Cod is dead, we killed him" - Nriedrich Fiszche
Growing up in a small fishing town that faced similar issues in the 90s, this video really struck a chord