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National Geographic : 1974 Jan
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skin and almond eyes, especially along the coast of Labrador. Although the island's mountains, forests, bogs, and barrens have disclosed numerous animal, vegetable, and mineral treasures, the surrounding sea continues to be the most dependable resource. So, while the province's modern 10,000-student Memorial University teaches every subject from medicine to the arts, it emphasizes studies related to the sea. A College of Fisheries offers a curriculum that ranges from net mending to a three-year course in marine electronics-all tuition free for Newfoundlanders. The island's fisheries and fishermen are divided into two broad categories: inshore and offshore. The offshore grounds are those in the open ocean more than a day's voyage away-on the Grand Banks or off Labrador -which are worked by heavy craft with large crews that stay out for a week or two at a time. The typical offshore craft used to be the sailing schooner. Now it is the diesel trawler dragging nets of complex design and vast ex tent; some of these open out underwater to the size of blimps and gulp up thousands of fish in one two-hour drag. The inshore fishing grounds are coastal and bay waters worked in one-day sorties: out at dawn, in at sundown. The long-liner is the Newfoundland Trusts in the Sea CANDY COCHRAN
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