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Wind dries both laundry and cod for Howard Hinks of Lourdes, Newfoundland. The fish constitutes a fair bit of his winter food supply. The steady decline of the fishing industry over many years has devastated Canada’s easternmost province. Over coffee in Hinks’s kitchen, a neighbor became tearful as he talked about his children having had to move away and about the grandchildren he never sees. All over Canada, I ran into homesick, transplanted Newfoundlanders.