• Continuing benches cod in their retreat towards the north, the Basques have been caught in the area of Scotland, then in those of Iceland, Newfoundland ( "Isles of Bacaleos") and the estuary of the St Laurent from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

• Fishing at the coast (with a basis of life on land), fisheries wandering (in the line by hand) and the fishing line.

• According to Lloyd's register "1932/1933, Emerald Coast 380 tons gross tonnage, built in 1925 by CRAPIPEAU to ST MALO, owner Louis GIRARD, armed with the WAVE (Cancale), length 131 feet and rigged three-masted schooner.