There was times there was a lot of pressure, but it was always a new challenge. That's what I found when I went down to open the plant in the spring of the year. I never ever felt that there was any real stress on because I didn't think there was anything ever come along that I couldn't handle. I always felt comfortable with the fishery.

I also got involved in my own company. I had so high as 200 fishermen on the payroll. I was buying salmon, which was a very delicate product. You were always worried that you weren't going to get them to the market in time, because you were putting a fresh product on the market. And for three or four years I concentrated on that. Then I see that was also failing - I wasn't getting the amount of product that was feasible to have a truck come in every week. So that's when I decided that I'd move on further up the coast and put a collector on.

I was bringing in anywhere from 5,000 to 8,000 pounds of salmon a week from the southeast coast of Labrador. Set up a small operation up there in Snug Harbour and had a young fellow buying and icing for me all week long, and had my boat up there around Friday to collect and load on board and bring it back. It was also giving people another access to sell their salmon, because at this point in time it was the first year that ever the fishermen from Red Bay and up around the Cape Charles area could ever sell late-run salmon. I bought something like 25,000 pounds from August 15 to September 20. Now they weren't so bright a salmon as they were early in the year, they were a little bit more paler, but I still kept paying those fishermen $1.50 per pound. It was fantastic for them, they made a great lot of money.