tales-of-Fogo-Island

'Number Two' fish was not as good. The lowest grade of fish, or 'Cullage' wasleast valuable and was often sent to the West Indies.The value of the shipped fish would be used to pay off the fisherman'saccount. This was called 'squaring up' or 'straightening up'. Then, thefisherman would buy more supplies for the winter. If it was a good year, hewould even have some money left over.Culling Fish at Earle and Sons Company Limited, FogoFishermen also sold cod liver oil to the merchants. The livers would be cookedin 'muck bags'. One lady recalls a poem about a cod liver oil factory in Fogo:Hedley came from Newstead,As you may understand.To start a liver factory on Mr. Earle's land.Now Hedley he went foreman and UncleWalt went second hand.Billy Snow was the collectorAnd Eric Bennett the mucker man!