By PAUL DAVIS, The Providence Journal

U.S. scientists and engineers are trying to save a toppled slave fort in Sierra Leone -- a site where New England slave captains bought African captives 250 years ago.

The team is part of a $5 million effort to preserve the fort's stone walls, cannons and slave pens, weakened by tropical heat, rain and years of neglect.

Brian Loftes, who started fishing at 10, has earned a living dragging the ocean for fluke, yellowtail and squid.
But these days he's spending time in the editing room, not the wheelhouse. The 42-year-old fisherman, an outspoken critic of federal fishery regulations, is working on his first documentary.