Weir Fishing by the Mouth of the Bay of Fundy for the Last Sardine Cannery in North America

By Peter Andrey Smith

JUST AFTER DAYBREAK, JEFF FOSTER motored the Loose Change, a 30-foot seine skiff around the headlands of Canada’s Grand Manan Island. Heavy September winds kicked up steady sets of four-foot waves and a swift tide rushed into the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, roiling the surface with frothy chop and forming a long eddy that appeared to stretch to the coast…