As the winter sun rises over Tilting Harbour, Norm Foley is on Oliver’s Cove Beach, pitchfork in hand, green rubber boots over the pant legs of his Levi’s, iPhone in his shirt pocket. The 55-year-old will spend hours on this day spearing kelp from the shaggy maroon heaps that smother the shore, forking it into heavy-duty plastic containers.

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