Fogo Island: Bringing new life to a remote Canadian fishing community

Fogo Island: Bringing new life to a remote Canadian fishing community

By Jon Wertheim

Source: cbsnews

3/10/2024

A remote jewel of land off the coast of Canada, Fogo Island floats in the northeast corner of the northeast province of Newfoundland and Labrador, the outstretched right fingertip of this continent.

The place might be drop-dead gorgeous; but it wasn't immune to the fate befalling so many small and isolated communities in North America: its one and only industry went into steep decline, and so in turn, did its population.... Then in the early 2000s, a local returned home, fresh off making a fortune in the tech sector. Her pockets were deep.

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3421	Cop26: Oceanographer Sylvia Earle calls for industrial fishing ban on high seas	theguardian	2021-11-10	UK
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