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The fishery is worth more than ever. If the fisheries were meant to save rural N.L., what gives?

It’s 2022. It’s hard to believe, for a number of reasons. Time is flying by, and things inevitably change. But for the cod fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador, and in too many ways for the fishery generally, “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose,” or, the more things change, they more they stay the same. We are 30 years out from the initial groundfish moratorium of July 1992. As we reflect, there are reasons to be grateful. By Derek Butler >click to read< 07:42

New hope for the fishery

cod-fishNowhere in Canada has the devastation of a fishery and the decimation of a fisherpeople been greater than on the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. Federal and provincial fisheries policies have, for many years, especially since the and during the Harper administrations, catered to the powerful influence of large fish companies, fisheries unions and federal foreign trading practices. Ninety per cent of our once great resource has disappeared and 90 per cent of what is left is under the control of a few elite, wealthy, powerful people,,, Read the rest here 09:21