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Approximately eight kilometres from shore, crab harvester Matthew Bourgeois baits a trap by climbing on top as it hovers over the side of the boat.
Although this morning was calm, climate change is conjuring decidedly less predicable, and more severe, weather at sea. And as some fish stocks become scarcer, there is a temptation for fishermen to head further out – where water is colder and choppier, and where help, when needed, is distant.