The Rising Tide

6/1/2025

Give a man a lobster and he’ll probably make quite a mess of the table cloth. Get a man to work with his fellow fisherman, lumber merchants, carpenters, builders, canners and truck drivers and then fish the critters from the sea and you will ruin loads more table cloths to be sure, but you’ll also feed a great deal more of the area’s 1 million-odd people both spiritually and physically in Canada’s neglected Maritime areas of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. Barely a century ago, the fishermen were lucky to earn 1 cent for every pound of fresh cod they could land - not even enough to pay for the petrol needed to run their small, open, craft. With their livelihoods in tatters, many abandon these traditional jobs and head to the industrial heartlands where mining and steel making make