An Evening with Greg Mercer

Bookmark is welcoming Globe and Mail reporter Greg Mercer to Charlottetown for the launch of his new book The Lobster Trap: The Global Fight for a Seafood on the Brink. The event will be held September 16 at 7 pm in the Schurman Market Square, inside Don & Marion MacDougall Hall at UPEI.

In this deeply reported, resonant, timely book, Mercer takes readers inside this precarious moment for the lobster industry, to show the money and heartache, and the danger and violence, tied up in it. Along the way, he explores lobster’s remarkable history, the gold-rush mentality that surrounds it, and examines the looming crisis for this most precious shellfish.

Mercer is an investigative reporter for The Globe and Mail, where he writes in-depth stories about issues of international interest. He was previously The Globe’s Atlantic Canada reporter, and he has also reported for the BBC, The Guardian, and The Toronto Star. His reporting has earned him multiple National Newspaper Awards and the Michener–Deacon Fellowship for Investigative Reporting.