Once upon a time I was going to get on the "Casino Royale" a new wooden "purse seiner" in Seal Cove on Grand Manan Island, where we had an old home for awhile, next to the schoolhouse. It had some new GM engine problems (assembly line failed to clean out metal turnings) and didn't. They had built the boat around the engine and had to cut the deck open to remove it and replace it. The aluminum boat was really fast, the one that pulls the net out in a large circle around the school of herring that the "mother ship" then draws the bottom of the net closed and then hydraulically closes the top of the net, lifting the catch onto the deck into the hold I think. It went for 17 years I heard until it broke up on some rocks, the archipelago is full of submerged hazards, e.g., rock ledges, tricky passages in some of the highest tides in the world (28 feet?). To help save the herring industry in the Northeast Atlantic see: Protect Atlantic Herring: Building Block of Our Ocean Ecosystem and take action at the National Environmental Trust.
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