In a few short weeks, it will have been 26 years since the cod moratorium was first put in place.
And the amazing thing, for anyone who remembers that day personally, is that the same arguments are being made about a fish stock that is still clearly in trouble.
This past week, the federal government announced it was cutting this year’s total allowable catch by 25 percent, after a single-year decline in the biomass of 30 percent. The cod biomass now is roughly where it was in 1992...