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Oil Spill training for coastal communities
For years, husband and wife Girard and Rita Pomeroy have made their living by fishing together off Merasheen Island in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland. This fall, they received training for a very different job, joining a handful of other fishermen in a pilot project to learn about oil spill countermeasures. Over the next three years, 500
World Wildlife Fund blames illegal fishing for Grand Banks depletion
Foreign overfishing on the Grand Banks off Canada’s east coast continues to deplete groundfish stocks while Newfoundland outport communities, reliant on marine resources, continue to shrink and die. The Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization, the international organization that governs stocks in the area, has been condemned by individuals, industry and most recently by a federally appointed
Faraway Places: The Rebirth of Battle Harbour
Our Boston Whaler charges and smacks the waves rolling in from the northeast. There’s a pod of low-lying islands on the horizon. As we head for one of them, Battle Island, we maneuver around a giant chess set of carved icebergs. Closing in on a point of land, we hear the chatter of whitecaps around