At harvest time, a farmer starts his day on a Petty Harbour farm. Located on the east coast of Newfoundland, far from the Canadian mainland, Petty Harbour sits on the Grand Banks, an undersea shelf that is the favored home of a great number of fish and the secret, millennium-old destination of European fisherman.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Newfoundland Trusts in the Sea," January 1974, National Geographic magazine)