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Whyman Richards says he'll give anything a try. A lifelong fisherman from a tiny town in northern Newfoundland, he has worked hard to make ends meet since the cod fishery collapsed in the early 1990s. So when a local businessman asked him if he'd be willing to steer his homemade boat toward the mountains of ice that break off the Greenland ice sheet every summer, he said why not. Whyman and his brother Dale snag chunks of ice with a giant net, haul them on board with a hydraulic lift, and chop them up with axes. Hours later the water is in plastic bottles, heading for Texas. Janna Graham's profile is part of the WORKING series from Homelands Productions.
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Whyman Richards says he'll give anything a try. A lifelong fisherman from a tiny town in northern Newfoundland, he has worked hard to make ends meet since the cod fishery collapsed in the early 1990s. So when a local businessman asked him if he'd be willing to steer his homemade boat toward the mountains of ice that break off the Greenland ice sheet every summer, he said why not. Whyman and his brother Dale snag chunks of ice with a giant net, haul them on board with a hydraulic lift, and chop them up with axes. Hours later the water is in plastic bottles, heading for Texas. Janna Graham's profile is part of the WORKING series from Homelands Productions.
Intro and Outro
INTRO:Next up we meet a man who’s facing a challenge familiar to anyone who lives a long way from the economic action. What do you do when your only source of income disappears? Whyman Richards is a fisherman, way up at the northern tip of Newfoundland, where it’s getting harder and harder to find fish. Tens of thousands of Newfoundlanders have already left the island in search of work. But Richards says he’s not going anywhere. Janna Graham brings us this profile. It's part of the WORKING series from Homelands Productions.
OUTRO:That was Janna Graham reporting. Chris Brookes co-produced. WORKING is produced by Homelands Productions in collaboration with Marketplace Radio. To see pictures and hear audio, go to working.homelands.org. While you're there, you can also tell the world what you think about YOUR job.
Additional Credits
WORKING is a collaboration between Homelands Productions and Marketplace Radio. Major funding comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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