Lobster, scallops, shrimp, and crab are also caught.
Overfishing caused a severe decline of fish in the Grand Banks.
Fish processing is an important industry.
Forests ( mostly coniferous trees ) cover one third of Newfoundland.
Summers are cool and the growing season is short.
Places and people
Signal Hill is a high cliff where Italian inventor Marconi received the first wireless signal (1901) from across the Atlantic Ocean.
Titanic, a large passenger ship, sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg south of Newfoundland.
A transatlantic telegraph cable was laid on the bottom of the ocean from Ireland to Heart’s Content, Newfoundland in 1866.
Joey Smallwood – first premier of Newfoundland, the main force for bringing Newfoundland into Confederation in 1949
Kevin Major – a Canadian children’s author lives in St.John’s.
W.Grenfell – a doctor and missionary in the early 1900s, who visited fishing villages along the coasts of Labrador and Newfoundland to care for the sick.