The long-standing fishing moratorium on southern Grand Banks cod is to be extended for at least another three years, member countries of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) decided ...

Why think about this now? This year, the moratorium on cod fishing on the Grand Banks was lifted. Thirty-two years on – and in the teeth of opposition from inshore fishing communities and ...

Combined yield for all the fisheries studied has fallen since the peak, despite greatly increased fishing effort. The collapse of the Grand Banks cod stocks off the Newfoundland coast led to ...

In the 1990s, a single moratorium announcement wiped out an entire industry, leaving 37,000 people unemployed overnight. The ecological collapse of the Canadian Grand Banks Cod Fisheries is the ...