from the site linked above:

"This paean of West Coast fisheries survival, by falling back on the log salvaging industry during the fishing off-season, is mirrored in the CBC television series: The Beachcombers. For me the power of the song lies in the attention it draws to the logging practices of some of the "corporate buccaneers" whose government sanctioned clearcutting is leaving vast areas of British Columbia denuded!

A note from Fraser Union's recording Hello Stranger states: "Vic Bell tells how he made a quick career change from fishing to log salvaging after arriving on the B.C. Coast."

This song has also been recorded by:

James Keelaghan on "Timelines" (TM-1, LP, 1987); Fraser Union with the Vancouver Industrial Writers' Union on "Split Shift: Songs and Poems of the Workplace" (cassette, 1989); Natural Elements on "Winter Moon" (EP102C, cassette); Fraser Union on "Hello, Stranger!" (cassette, 1991); Tom Lewis on "Sea-Dog, See Dog!" (Flying Fish FF70547, CD and cassette). "