By REBECCA NOLAN • KCBX • AUGUST 19, 2020 Associate Producer Rebekah Nolan explores “Girls Who Fish” a program designed to attract girls and women to become involved in Newfoundland’s commercial fishery. Nolan says, “fishing is the thing that brought the first settlers from England and Ireland about 400 years ago, and it continues to be a Read more…
By JENN THORNHILL VERMA • OCTOBER 08, 2019 About a mile-and-a-half off of Petty Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador, we’re dropping anchor, 26 fathoms deep. The fish finder, an instrument for locating schools of fish, confirms what captains Leo Hearn and Kimberly Orren already know: the cod are plentiful. In their 22-footer, we Read more…
By JENN THORNHILL VERMA • READERS DIGEST CANADA • OCTOBER 16, 2019 Fishing lessons from Petty Harbour Fishing is part of my identity,” says Jasmine Paul, a 31-year-old part-time university student. “And when I wasn’t fishing, I was depressed.” On a Sunday in July, eight women are huddled together inside a wooden Read more…
By ADAM WALSH • CBC NEWS • JULY 15, 2019 It only took a few hours Monday morning for expert fishers Leo Hearn and Kimberly Orren to catch their daily quota of cod. The husband and wife team set out from Petty Harbour with CBC’s Adam Walsh along for the ride just as the sun Read more…
M GUSTAVSSON • WOMEN IN FISHERIES • OCTOBER 31, 2018 … In addition, Kimberly Orren, founder of Fishing for Success and the Girls Who Fish programme in Newfoundland, presented work on making the fishery more accessible to women. Kimberly shared a video by Justin Oakey and Troy Maher which was one Read more…
NTV • AUGUST 30, 2018 Wednesday’s storm generated thousands of images, but none so bizarre as one from Petty Harbour. It looks like Leo Hearn is walking on water, but he was actually standing on a submerged stage. Hearn was trying to save an important piece of the community, an historic Read more…
EVA CROCKER • THE OVERCAST • JULY 11, 2017 Fishing For Success is a non-profit that operates out of Petty Harbour with a mandate to preserve and celebrate knowledge handed down through family fisheries in Newfoundland and Labrador. The organization is in the process of rebuilding a fishing premise in Petty Read more…
By KIMBERLY ORREN • NAVIGATOR • MAY 2, 2017 “We are a Sea People, once described by Winston Churchill as the “world’s best small boatmen.” Yet an entire generation has come to adulthood since the cod moratorium. And those of us who may have grown up with our butts in a punt, Read more…
See Article By RAINA DELISLE • HAKAI MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 14, 2016 Hakai Magazine highlighted Petty Harbour in its story “Old Coast, New Coast,” but this tale could have been told about any outport community in Newfoundland and Labrador. Each struggling to maintain its connection to heritage amid the onslaught of modern changes, Read more…
By HEATHER WHITE • SALTSCAPES #2 Any type of footwear goes, from rubber boots to FiveFingers shoes. Kimberly Orren and Leo Hearn wore rubber boots for their wedding last summer in Petty Harbour, NL. In fact, their whole wedding party wore rubber boots, and some of the guests did too. Instead Read more…
