The fisheries are ours to squander or sustain. In ‘Cod Collapse: The Rise and Fall of Newfoundland’s Saltwater Cowboys,’ author Jennifer Thornhill Verma shows us how good we have been at the former and provides enormous justification for why we should strive to achieve the latter.

Full disclosure: I’m not from the book world. But in the last year, I’ve been captured by it. The region’s publishers and authors’ passion, creativity and openness are infectious, and as business guy turned book convert, my goal now is to both expand awareness and consumption of Atlantic books. Recently, one of Canada’s largest book printers commented that there are more new books coming out of…