Canadian Cod Debate Praised as All Sides Agree on Science Based Decisions
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Bloomberg] Mark Buchanan - June 28, 2017
How can governments responsibly balance the interests of industry and the environment? For at least part of the answer, it's worth considering the case of the Canadian cod.
Just a couple decades ago, the Northern Cod population of Newfoundland and Labrador appeared to be on the brink of vanishing. Overfishing had brought it to less than 1 percent of historical levels, leaving roughly 40,000 fishermen out of work in the process. To at least mitigate the ecological disaster, the Canadian government banned large-scale commercial cod fishing in the region.
Now the cod is coming back. Although it remains well below the historical norm, measured biomass has increased more than tenfold over the past decade. The fish has proven much more capable of recovering than anyone thought just a decade ago, when ...
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