Steve MacLellan

When Stuart Beaton started fishing for lobster in 1971, the
ocean waters off the northern coast of Nova Scotia and the marine
creatures that lived beneath the waves behaved differently than today.

There
is now less ice coverage in the spring, new species have arrived and
lobsters are flocking to more northern waters amid rising ocean
temperatures. His family, with three generations of lobster fishermen,
have watched the changes in real time over half a century.

“In
our business, we’re very exposed to what happens. If two degrees kills
the oceans…” said his son, Gordon Beaton, during an interview on a
wharf in Ballantynes Cove, N.S., before his father added: “We’re going
to be the first to know.”