McGrath and his wife are the only fishers in the community and they continue the long-standing family tradition, using the structure for salting cod fish and storing gear.  The Fisheries Heritage Preservation Program has allowed the McGrath’s to continue their livelihood through the restoration grant.  The funding has allowed them to restore the stage and wharf back to their original conditions.At the beginning of the project the structures were in need of new shores, paint, shingles, a new stage head, cribbing and a splitting table.

This rectangular, low pitch gable roof building has withstood the rigors of the land and sea. Perched on wooden shores and balanced on cribbing this stage and wharf are symbolic of an earlier era that was typified by the fishery and its buildings.  Today this wooden, gable-roofed building with small wooden windows and its attached wharf have been revitalized.  Said Daniel McGrath of the project, “We now have a new wharf and stage good as new.  (They’re) not an eyesore anymore…..thanks for making this happen.”