This is Taylor's grandad. He came to visit our class to speak to us about life as a fisherman. We wrote letters to him last week, inviting him along. We found out that he owns two boats. One is called the Mako and the other is called the Pursuit and that he sells his fish to Talley's. He has been fishing for about 40 years now and he brought lots of photos along to show us. He sure knows a lot about fishing and had a lot of interesting stories to tell. Everyone in our class had lots of questions to ask him and we could have spent the whole day listening to Mr Brown. Taylor is holding up some photos of some of Talley's first boats.
He told us that he was out at sea for 7 weeks once which is a long time to be away from home. He also told us that one of his crewmen fell overboard once but luckily they managed to rescue him and haul him back aboard. His trawlers often fish along the West Coast near Westport as well as in Tasman Bay. He said that some days he can catch up to 20 tonnes of fish (which is a lot of fish'n' chips!!)
He has caught a few sharks in the nets before and even caught a Great White a few years ago - that would have been scary!
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Mr Brown told us lots that room 7 all learnt lots about your job .We did not know how many boats you own and which one was the biggest and smallest which he told us how long they were
MR.BROWN was really helpfull in our study I learned alot about his
it was cool
It was cool when my grandpa came to our class to talk about his company it was awesome.
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