tales-of-Fogo-Island

Removing the soundbone,or "splitting" fish at Tilting plant.Sometimes work continued late into the night, until all the fish was cleaned,put into pounds and salted. After being cured, it would be put on a flake to dry.Most often, tending to fish while it dried was the responsibility of women in thecommunity. They spent endless hours on the flakes and often carried theiryoung children with them. One lady stated, "If it was real busy, we might takethe youngsters with us and put them in a puncheon tub to keep them out oftrouble."