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The day in
a life of a fisherman
Up at the crack of dawn, the fisherman of the Taylor Maid head
out from the shore of Lake Erie to make the fresh catch of the
day. Located in Wheatley, Ontario, Taylor Fish Company has been
a family owned and operated for four generations. From the boat
to their processing plant to their personal service, they take
the greatest care in providing your family with the highest
quality freshwater fish anywhere.
Fishermen have many ways to figure out the prime spot to set
their nets like graphs, navigational instruments, depth
sounders, weather forecast, and many techniques that are passed
down from generation to
generation.
Once the boat and crew are at a prime fishing spot they begin
the process called setting nets. To set nets one of the crew
members stands at the back of the boat with a tray of nets and
quickly uncoils the tray out the back of the boat. The nets have
lead weights that sink the bottom part and a plastic cork on the
top part that keeps it from getting tangled up in the water. The
nets sit in the water lengthwise and stretch out for more than
one hundred feet.
As the perch and pickerel chase their meal of smelt toward the
net, the smaller smelt easily swim through, leaving the larger
perch and pickerel to be caught in the net.The
boat returns to the nets hours later to retrieve their catch.
The fish are picked and sorted out of the nets and put ice
on. The boat heads back to the harbour where the crew weighs the
days catch into 100 pound tubs. Then are dumped into
bigger totes that hold more than 1000 pounds. |
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Lake Erie
Lake Erie is the smallest of the Great
Lakes in volume (119 cubic miles) and is exposed
to the greatest effects from urbanization and
agriculture. Measuring 241 miles across and 57
miles from north to south, the lake's surface is
just under 10,000 square miles, with 871 miles
of shoreline. The average depth of Lake Erie is
only about 62 feet (210 feet, maximum). It
therefore warms rapidly in the spring and
summer, and frequently freezes over in winter.
The drainage basin covers parts of Indiana,
Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and
Ontario. Because of its fertile soils, the basin
is intensively farmed and is the most densely
populated of the five lake basins. |
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