In The Lobster Trap, Globe Reporter Greg Mercer Examines a Fishery Pulled in All Directions
In late 2020, standing in a lobsterman’s living room in southern New Brunswick, journalist Greg Mercer found himself writing from within a maelstrom. Outside, a vicious storm – powerful enough to “blow the rabbit right out of the woods,” according to fisherman Brad Small – had grounded boats and stripped siding off buildings. But the real reason Mercer was there, as The Globe and Mail’s Atlantic Canada reporter, was to cover the violent reaction to the entry of Indigenous fishermen into the region’s multimillion-dollar lobster fishery...
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