WATCH: Fogo Island, a jewel of land off the coast of Canada bringing new life to a remote Canadian fishing community
A remote jewel of land off the coast of Canada, Fogo Island floats in the northeast corner of the northeast province of Newfoundland and Labrador, the outstretched right fingertip of this continent. The place might be drop-dead gorgeous; but it wasn't immune to the fate befalling so many small and isolated communities in North America: its one and only industry went into steep decline, and so, in turn, did its population.
With one small punt launched from this one dock, Cobb's father couldn't compete with commercial vessels that had come to the North Atlantic from all over the world.Zita Cobb: Things got-- he would go out and come back with nothing. But one day in particular he came back with one fish. And he brought the fish into the house, and he slapped it down onto the kitchen floor, and said,"Well, it's done." And it was the next day he burned his boat.
Zita Cobb: We're gonna put a 29 room inn on an island that's never had an inn. What are the consequences of that? Well, more people will come? Well, how many more people? As one woman said"Well, you know, we're only 2,500 people. We can only love so many people at a time." For starters, all the furniture at the inn is locally made.
You can do more than eat cod; you can fish for it again. Now that a decades-long ban has been eased, Fogo Island's fishers are back hauling cod. We ventured out of Fogo Harbor with brothers Glen and Jerry BestGlen Best: You go East, your next stop is Ireland.The Best brothers showed us the traditional Newfoundland way of fishing with a handline, 150 feet down, no rods, reels or nets.Glen Best: Now that's a nice cod. That's probably a 20-pound fish.
Her regulars grumble that not long ago, they could get a home for $25,000 thousand —Canadian. Now homes cost ten times as much.
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