Northern_Cod_Stocks_Crisis

Northern Cod Stocks Crisis Human life is dependant on the renewable resources of nature, soil, water, forests and the resources found in rivers and oceans. Today these resources face many threats due to pollution, mismanagement and exploitation. One of these threatened resources is the world’s ocean fisheries. With rising populations, increasing consumption of fish and expanding markets have made the fisheries a target for ever-growing numbers of nations. New technologies that allow the fish to be vacuumed out of the sea have brought hundreds of fish species close to exhaustion. As the fish stocks around the world continue to decline, competition and conflict increase. For the past 500 years, the seas off Atlantic Canada have supported one of the world’s richest commercial fisheries. It all started in 1497 when an explorer from England, John Cabot found his ship literally trapped in an aggregation of fish. Off-shore he found a sea, “swarming with fish - which can only be taken not only with nets, but in baskets led down with a stone.”(LeBlanc 1999). He was eventually followed to the “Grand Banks” by other fisherman from Europe, and so began the unique settlement of Newfoundland. Nature has given Atlantic fish, cod, fisheries, fishing, canada, northern, new, shelf, sea, resources, newfoundland, nets, inshore, found, continental, being, banks, years, technology, stocks, species, scientists, scientific, out, one, ocean, management, government, fishery, fishers, europe, dfo, catch, boats, been