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Passing of Matt Puntervold breaks link to dory fishing
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Matt Puntervold, one of the few remaining men to remember the days of dory fishing for halibut, passed away in Vancouver Jan. 13. He was 87 years old.
Born Jan. 8, 1896, Egersund, Norway, Matt left his home in
1916 to join a brother in New York, where he stayed for about one year, working as a longshoreman. His next stop was Alberta, where he lived with a sister for four years.
In 1921, he made his way to Prince Rupert were his fishing
John McDonald
John McDonald, a fisherman who was among the thousands who trekked across the prairies during the Hungry Thirties to find work in the mines and fishing industry, died Jan. 20 in Aldergrove. He was 79.
Like so many at the time, he came from a large family which owned a small farm north of Winnipeg, where he was born in 1903.
When he first arrived on the coast in 1933, he found work at Cominco's Missouri mine in Stewart, B.C., staying there until turning to longshoring in Prince Rupert in the mid-forties.
In 1945 he began his fishing career, which was to span more than three decades of halibut fishing, ending finally in 1979.
During this period he fished a number of boats including the Kain, Miss Margaret, Helen 2, Sea Master, Masonic, Twinkle, Freeland, Velma C and finally finishing on the Pluto.
In the final stages of his career, McDonald and his partner on the Pluto landed one of the biggest halibut in recorded history.
From his first years in the
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He is survived by four sisters, Mrytle, Gladys, Jean and Nora; and two brothers, Duncan and Jim.
career began, primarily longlin-ing for halibut. In his early years he fished a number of steamers and dory schooners, and was involved in the shipwreck of The Roman.
During his longlining days, he was a member of the Deep Sea Fishermen's Union of the Pacific and later of Prince Rupert. In 1957, he transferred into the UFAWU and became an honorary member when he retired in 1973.
He married late in life and had no family of his own.
With the passing of Puntervold, one of the last links to the dory halibut fishery is gone.
Correction
Two serious errors slipped into obituaries published in the Jan. 28 issue of The Fisherman. The veteran Alert Bay fisherman who died Nov. 29 was Robert Myers, not Albert Myers. Willi Karliner was a member of the Pacific Coast Fishermen's Union, not the Pacific Coast Gillnetters Association. The Fisherman apologizes for any confusion or misunderstanding caused by the errors.
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