Outport Outlaws

Rural Newfoundlanders are being arrested for living and working as their ancestors have always done. In July 1994, Frank McCarthy, a 49-year-old inshore fisherman from Too Good Arm, Notre Dame Bay became the first Newfoundlander in history to be charged for jigging a few cod to feed his family.

Are these people really criminals?

First broadcast: CBC Radio IDEAS, 1996.