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    In autumn, the same manoeuver was carried out in reverse. The quintals of dried cod were loaded and they returned to France or to St-Pierre-et-Miquelon to drop off those belonging to those islands. For a colony of 100 men or more many ships were no doubt required to take everyone home.

    When the fishermen of Ile-aux-Chiens began going to Red Island and to the rest of Port au Port after 1893, their sojourn was shorter. In the first days of April schooners of the French Islands transported to the French Shore, one says "au golfe" (to the gulf) in St-Pierre-et-Miquelon, those fishermen who had obtained a place. They loaded their dorys, the salt necessary to the production of green cod, the little food they needed, wood to patch up the cabins. The schooner returned for them in the first days of July, Some men stayed au golfe until the feast of Saint Michael, the official closing date of the fisheries for the French, but the majority of them returned to the French islands to undertake their second season of fishing.