Andrew Lincoln Photography
 

   Remote Newfoundland outports face extinction.  Once vibrant communities of independent fishermen, villages like Bay de Verde suffered in the face of international fishing trawlers and government fisheries mismanagement.  The cod fishery collapsed in 1992 leading to the largest industrial layoff in Canadian history.  A tide of outmigration followed, later slowed by a boom in mobile work as Newfoundlanders travelled back and forth to offshore oil rigs and further afield to Alberta’s oil sands, and elsewhere.  Many outports are seeing a population decline, and with that, a threat to tradition and a way of life that goes back hundreds of years.  How are those who remain at home coping? What future do they hope for? Will new developments, such as a different fishery (shellfish), tourism, and long-distance commuting be enough to save outports like Bay de Verde? The photos in this collection were taken for a book (Families, Mobility, and Work), magazine article (Natural History) and two documentary films (A Year in the Field) (Second Film in Post-production) that discuss these very themes. Most of the photos are from Bay de Verde and surrounding outports along the Avalon Peninsula.