y name is Captain Leroy Leggo. I live in Eastern Québec on the Gaspé Peninsula which juts out into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. I have been a commercial fisherman for 25 years. I started out on my fishing career pursuing codfish and over the years have fished just about all commercial species present in our local waters. After taking courses for two winters in Riviere-au-Renard I passed my ministerial exams and received my masters certificate from the Minister of Transport for Canada in 1982.

he East coast fishery in Canada suffered a ground fish collapse in the late eighties and early nineties that forced me to look for something else to fish. Ten years ago I bought my tuna licence. My life has never been the same since. Our fishery evolved from fishing in our local area to fishing anywhere on the East coast of Canada.

y 25 year old son, Dylan - who also happens to be my first mate, and I regularly log over 3,000 nautical miles of sailing and fishing each season all over the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the North Atlantic out to the Gulf Stream and as far south as the Hague Line on Georges Bank that separates Canada and the U.S.

ince shark and tuna are highly migratory species we have to follow these magnificent giants of the deep wherever they go when they are in Canadian waters.