Nick Didlick / Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»Sun.
1972
The Royal Bounty
Herring bounty. The captain of the Royal Bounty instructs crew members as they prepare to pump herring from their net during a herring roe opening in Baynes Sound near Union Bay on Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»Island. After herring stock rebounded in the early 1970s, fishing for the Japanese market was quite lucrative at $3,500 a tonne.
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