The Jersey Fishermen in Placentia.

The Jersey Fishermen
In the English Channel, contiguous to the French coast, is a group of islands and rocks now known collectively as the Channel Islands, but in olden days as the Norman Isles. The principal ones are Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sork.
One of the more distinctive and smaller channels of emigration was rooted in these Channel Islands mainly Jersey. Channel Islanders entered the mode of seasonal fishing voyages to Newfoundland about 1600, and continued it until about 1890.
In the 18^th and 19^th centuries, the island was torn by feuds but it prospered from the Newfoundland fisheries, privateering and smuggling.
Marquise, between Placentia and Argentia is probably named from La Marquise in Guernsey on the west side of Placentia Bay, we have Paradise from Paradis on the Guernsey Coast.
The Jersey people had fished in Placentia Bay prior to 1662. The Villeneuves had a fishing establishment at Placentia before the French occupation. Jerseyside, Placentia is the only reminder left of the fact that a fishing firm from the Channel Islands once occupied this area.

Source:
Lemissieur, H.W. "Old Time Newfoundland", 1910.