{"id":319,"date":"2021-03-22T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nsfishloan.ca\/?p=319"},"modified":"2023-03-27T11:55:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T14:55:25","slug":"sometimes-its-just-in-your-bones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsfishloan.ca\/sometimes-its-just-in-your-bones\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes, It&#8217;s Just In Your Bones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Ocean Calls Home Maritime Son<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joseph DeCoste grew up on the ocean and could never quite live without it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\u2019s fished the waters of East Tracadie with his father since the age of 15, sailing first the humble 34 foot&nbsp;<em>Joey Bengie<\/em>, then later the 40 foot&nbsp;<em>Sunrise Sail II<\/em>. But by the end of his formal education Joseph found himself to be a power engineer, pursuing work and good living in Fort McMurray, Alberta, like so many Maritimers before him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was doing well out there,\u201d he said, \u201cbut I missed the ocean too much.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So much, in fact, that in his nine years out west he made a point of coming home and dedicating a few weeks to each lobster season, getting his fix of salt and spray. He came home permanently in 2015, still employed as a power engineer but moonlighting as a boat hand. Three and a half years ago, the siren song of the Atlantic finally won out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI realized that I didn\u2019t come home to do jobs I really didn\u2019t want to do,\u201d he said. \u201cI came home to fish.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He quit his engineering endeavours and, for the last two years has worked full time in the fishery alongside his father, racking up the experience necessary to apply as a new entrant to the Nova Scotia Fisheries and Aquaculture Loan Board. In this way, he hoped to finance his new career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe interest rates were phenomenal,\u201d he said, having been steered to the Fisheries Loan Board by friends and relatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joseph decided to buy his father\u2019s ship, the aforementioned&nbsp;<em>Sunrise Sail II<\/em>, along with his licenses, the four most relevant to Joseph being lobster, mackerel, herring and scallops. He took ownership in December, 2019, and come hell or high water, won\u2019t be renaming his father\u2019s ship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have a thing about renaming boats,\u201d he said, from either superstition or prudence. \u201cI don\u2019t walk under ladders and I don\u2019t rename boats.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ocean Calls Home Maritime Son Joseph DeCoste grew up on the ocean and could never quite live without it. He\u2019s fished the waters of East Tracadie with his father since the age of 15, sailing first the humble [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsfishloan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsfishloan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsfishloan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsfishloan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsfishloan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nsfishloan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsfishloan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsfishloan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsfishloan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsfishloan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}