Collapse Of The Northern Cod Fishery
In 1992 the Canadian government declared a moratorium on the Northern Cod fishery, which for the past 500 years had largely shaped the lives and communities of Canada’s eastern coast. The interplay between fishing societies and the resources which they depend on is obvious to almost any observer: fisheries transform the ecosystem, which pushes the fishery and society to adapt. In 1992 summer, when the Northern Cod biomass fell to 1% of its earlier level, Canada’s federal government saw that this relationship had been pushed to breaking point, and they declared a moratorium, ending the region’s 500-year run with the Northern Cod.
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