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by“I spent several years as a reporter interviewing fishers, reading reports, talking to processors, about the groundfish closure that devastated the Atlantic industry; it was when I read Donna Morrissey’s Silvanus Now that I FELT the horror of what was happening to the Atlantic fishery”