byboatkeeping

by-boat nA system, introduced by Kirke, known as "byboatkeeping", was still carried on, under which London Merchants financed independent fishermen who went out to Newfoundland as passengers, and there employed small vessels and cheap labour to catch fish which they sold to the sack ships. With their employees, they became settlers....Whereas the West- Country fishery had always been conducted on a share basis, the byboat- keepers paid wages.See cited quotation.PRINTED ITEMG.M.Story July 1964Used I and SupNot used2Not use