The swordfishermen thing was a lucrative deal we worked into. We ended up having anywhere from five to six enterprises from the New England states operating there, and most of the crews now are Newfoundlanders. One came up last year and she took the skipper and engineer and they got two Newfoundlanders to fly down and take the boat up with them, and then the rest of the crew was picked up in Bay Bulls before they started fishing. So these are Newfoundland harvesters.
A lot of them are crew members from larger longliners. When they're finished now at the last of July with the crab and shrimp, they have a berth on an American swordfish boat, and they can provide for their families now up until October, when that particular species stops.
I mean, $2.5 million to $3 million is what is normal for these boats to land in Bay Bulls, all trucked out. Businesses have been operating now unloading the boats. Groceries are bought in the community. They actually purchased $110,000 worth of lumber at the local hardware store in Witless Bay to build what I call caskets, because every swordfish has to be packed individually, or two or three in a box, and wrapped in ice. All of that is done in Bay Bulls and Witless Bay, in that area, as we're generally a community for the whole area. It is all done there and brings in major dollars for the crew members, the unloading, and for the hardware stores and businesses.