Let them nets go

Brothers Jacques and Tony LeBlanc explain how they would tie their father's nets to rocks or logs along the beach. When Department of Natural Resources officers or others attempted to catch the LeBlancs, their father, Albert "Big Abe" LeBlanc, would instruct the boys to run along the beach with a knife and cut the string and the nets would sink about 25 feet below the surface. The officers would only find pieces of string along the beach. Later the family would retrieve the nets and the fish with grapple hooks.

(interviewed June 30, 2008)