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Warm broth

A second novel from Sean Rabin
by
May 2022, no. 442

The Good Captain by Sean Rabin

Transit Lounge, $29.99 pb, 368 pp

Warm broth

A second novel from Sean Rabin
by
May 2022, no. 442
Sean Rabin (photograph via Transit Lounge)
Sean Rabin (photograph via Transit Lounge)

Just when you thought there wasn’t enough to worry about, along come bottom trawlers. While the fishing technique of dragging a heavy net along the bottom of the seabed is     nothing new – indeed, there was a British commission inquiry into the practice as far back as 1866 – the sheer size of modern super trawlers maximises their destructiveness. Centuries-old sea coral forests are bulldozed by the thirty-tonne nets, non-targeted fish and turtles become indiscriminately tangled in the web, and the disturbed sediment releases more carbon than the entire aviation industry each year.

Alex Cothren reviews 'The Good Captain' by Sean Rabin

The Good Captain

by Sean Rabin

Transit Lounge, $29.99 pb, 368 pp

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