Nature
Beleaguered Oceans, Fragile Seas
Dawn breathed a translucent light across the Bay of Fundy. It was the kind of light that had captured the imagination of America's renowned mid-nineteenth-century marine painter Fitz Henry Lane whose depictions of ships, bays and harbours were set within a luminous serenity. A taint of brine pinched the air as waters gurgled across the bay's mudflats, heralding the opus of a new sea symphony. Fishing craft with hulls ranging from white and blue to muted red and black, securely…
December 1, 2022