Chuck Lapp
Documentary, Canada
Runtime 47 min.
On November 5, 1998, a 26 year-old inshore fisherman who had occupied fisheries offices and had chained himself to a flagpole at the Nova Scotia Legislature to protest fishery policies wrote a farewell note and committed suicide. His fellow fishermen, who have led the struggle against government policy to sell the fishery into private hands, are determined to make sure that he did not die in vain.
The documentary, Clearing the Waters, portrays the epicentre of the struggle and possibly the last generation of inshore fishermen in a place that represents the history of a way of life – Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia, where the crisis of the groundfish stocks and government attempts to privatize the industry have devastated whole communities.
Screening on Friday, November 11 at 2pm in the Al Whittle Theatre with the films In the Same Boat and The Last Weir
Buy tickets for Clearing the Waters / In the Same Boat / The Last Weir