Fisheries editor
Lavinia Sinclair has reported on North Atlantic fisheries since 2008. She edits Sea Marker's Fisheries section.
Beats
Weather
A volunteer kayak instructor in Lunenburg has reviewed every cold-water immersion incident on the Nova Scotia coast since 2015. The temperature line between manageable and fatal is sharper than most paddlers know.
Weather
A second-generation lobsterman out of Digby Neck has been keeping an air-temperature gradient log between the deck and the masthead since 2019. The numbers tell a story about Fundy fog the forecast cannot.
Fisheries
New Bedford has been the most valuable fishing port in the United States for twenty-four consecutive years, almost entirely on the strength of one species. The Atlantic sea scallop fishery is the most tightly managed in the country. It is also, in 2026, in the middle of a quiet crisis.
Lighthouses
On the second Saturday of every month, Charlotte Auger and her brother David drive out to Long Point Light on the Lake Erie shore of Ontario to wind the clock, sweep the gallery, and take the readings.
Knots & Lines
Lavinia Sinclair examines a sailmaker's whipping put on by a Lunenburg rigger in 1994. The rope around it has been replaced twice. The whipping is still good.
Coastal Towns
On the Berwickshire coast a hundred and forty-five years after the disaster that took 189 men, a small fishing port keeps its working harbour, its memory, and its grip on the white-fish trade.
Fisheries
The Maine herring fleet is smaller than it has been in a century. The co-op that organises most of it has spent the past four years writing letters to the New England Fishery Management Council, and the past two years preparing for a fishery that may not exist in 2030.
Tides
Before electricity, Brittany ran on the tide. A visit to three surviving tide mills between Saint-Malo and Vannes, and the one that still grinds.
Tides
Sixteen metres of vertical water, four times a day. A late-May visit to the Minas Basin, where the world's largest tides do their ordinary work.
Fisheries
The boats leave the harbour before five, in a cold that the gauges call thirty-one. The talk on the radio is short. The traps are coming up heavy with kelp and not much else.