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‘All the predator fish are gone’

Chronical Herald -“All the predator fish are gone — the cod, the pollock, the haddock — but there’s more lobster and more seals. Something’s changed.” The next morning at 7 a.m., d’Entremont was at the Dennis Point Café drinking coffee with Pubnico’s fleet of aging captains. Outside the café that looks over one of the busiest fishing harbours in Atlantic Canada, young crew members smoked cigarettes and talked about women, trucks and landings in their mixture of French and English. Inside, d’Entremont and the other captains talked of the offshore banks as we all speak of the places where we were once young. continued