That was one that I really enjoyed. It was like you were really doing something when you got into the fresh fish -the actual buying the salmon, putting them on the market, and seeing returns from it within a few days or a week or so. I think it was too bad at the time I started up things were starting to decline. If it had to continue I think it would've probably grown into a fairly decent operation. But the change and the shift in everything sort of threw monkey wrenches in all that.

I remember back in the '70s when there was very few women working in coastal communities, and when that fresh fish plant started up in L'Anse au Loup, it was the prime source of employment for women in the Straits. It was something like over 100 employees that Pat had on there, and I've heard women older than me say for the first time in their lives, "I'm making my own money now." And I don't think it was by choice a lot of women got into the plants. I would say it was the only thing available. And times was getting a bit tougher, I guess, when people needed a second income. It was a whole turn of another different generation.