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Jenn Thornhill Verma

Jenn Thornhill Verma is an award-winning investigative journalist covering the ocean, fisheries, biodiversity and climate change. As Canada’s first Pulitzer Center Ocean Reporting Network Fellow, she led The Globe and Mail team to gold in Environmental and Climate Change reporting at the 2025 Canadian Association of Journalists awards. She is also the co-recipient of gold awards for Best Column (Digital Publishing Awards, 2024) and Business reporting (Atlantic Journalism Awards, 2024) for The Indy’s Seasplainer series with Leila Beaudoin and Best Cover (AJAs, 2020) for her landscape art. A fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and a Canadian Fellow of The Explorers Club, Jenn is also an alumna of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network, a visual artist and filmmaker. She is from Corner Brook and now lives in Ottawa with her family.

Jenn's Latest Articles

The Lobster Trap: Why Atlantic Canada’s golden fishery may be headed for collapse

Greg Mercer's book exposes how million-dollar debts, climate change, and market forces are pushing harvesters—and lobster—toward the breaking point

N.L. parties agree we need more say on fisheries — but what about climate change?

What three party leaders said about provincial fisheries and ocean priorities—and what they didn’t say

Where N.L. parties stand on fisheries and ocean priorities

Ahead of the provincial election, all parties agree the province needs a stronger voice with Ottawa, but they diverge on priority areas

Politicizing science: how quota quarrels lose sight of sustainable fishing

Doubling Northern cod catch limits ran counter to what scientists and key stakeholders called for — so what’s behind the decision?

The fatal truth about commercial fishing 

Fishing fatalities are preventable and the workforce is shrinking. So why aren’t there fewer deaths in Canadian commercial fisheries?

DFO ‘rolling the dice’ with cod fishery announcement, says scientist

Ottawa’s ‘historic return of the commercial Northern cod fishery’ sidesteps science that finds all populations of Atlantic cod in Canadian waters are historically low

Commercial redfish fishery to reopen, but pending quota threatens to push some fishers out

Harvesters in Newfoundland and Labrador preparing for the worst.

Is Northern cod on its way back from the brink? 

News that Northern cod likely moved out of the critical zone for the first time in decades could be called historic, but all Atlantic cod populations in the Northwest Atlantic ocean remain historically low

How Climate Change is Threatening Our Fisheries

Warming waters and extreme weather in the Northwest Atlantic are creating an inhospitable environment for the fish, and fishers too.

Fishers are Back on the Water

But they say the province’s fish pricing system is pushing rural communities toward economic collapse