Editor's Notebook, Editorial
2018: The Sharper the Blast, the Sooner it Will Pass?
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us: American author Hal Borland. So good readers, were any lasting lessons learned in 2018 that will better...
2018: The Sharper the Blast, the Sooner it Will Pass?
Twine Loft
The Twine Loft - January 2019
Passed On: Ralph Atkinson – Yarmouth, N.S. fisherman
Atkinson, 52, passed away on November 21 at the Yarmouth Regional Hospital. Born on May 15, 1966 in Everett, Mass., he was a son of the late Janice (Malone) and Peter Atkinson....
The Twine Loft - January 2019
On The Waterfront
On the Waterfront - January 2019
Yarmouth to Host Major Commercial Fishing Expo
One of Canada’s longest-running, most successful commercial fishing shows returns to the Yarmouth Mariners Centre in two short months. The Eastern Canadian Fisheries Exposition, held every two years in southwestern Nova Scotia, offers a...
On the Waterfront - January 2019
Fisheries Forum
Seals Continue to Plague N.L. Fishery
As winter arrives, we have time to reflect on this past year’s fisheries pros and cons, quotas, catch rates, challenges and management issues. There are planned advisory meetings and consultation on future direction, fisher challenges, quotas and impacts of climate...
Seals Continue to Plague N.L. Fishery
Above: David Greening Photo
In a fishery that has been shrinking significantly over the last few years, the outlook for Newfoundland and Labrador snow crab might be worse than many were ...
The Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) should be made a separate statutory agency, reporting to the Minister of Transport.
This was one of the major recommendations in a report by the Standing Senate ...
The first of what could be as many as seven exploratory wells in the Scotian Basin is being plugged and abandoned by BP Canada after the drilling project failed to find commercial quantities of ...
