NLGIDC concerned with the recent announcement regarding Northern Gulf Cod

The Newfoundland and Labrador Groundfish Industry Development Council are concerned with the recent announcement regarding Northern Gulf Cod

St. John’s, NL, July 5, 2022. Similar to many NL fishing industry associations and the Province of NL, The Newfoundland and Labrador Groundfish Industry Development Council (NLGIDC) is also concerned with federal Fisheries Minister Joyce Murry’s decision to place a one-year moratorium in the Northern Gulf Cod stock.

“This was a small fishery, however the total closure will have negative impacts on harvesters and processors as well as coastal communities on the west coast of Newfoundland and Labrador and the Lower North Shore of Quebec,” says Jim Baird, the Chair Person of the NLGIDC.

This stock is reported to be deep in the critical zone of the Precautionary Approach Framework but the recent science assessments suggest that mortality from fishing is not an issue. Many industry participants believe that predation by seals on cod in this area is the main reason why this resource is not rebuilding.

The NLGIDC looks forward to hearing more about seal predation on important fish stocks in the coming months as DFO continues to address the recommendations included in the report of the Atlantic Seal Science Task Team.

The Newfoundland and Labrador Groundfish Industry Development Council is an association comprised of fish harvesters, the FFAW and a number of NL fish processors, all representing almost 7,000 industry participants.

Contact
Jim Baird, Chair, NLGIDC
(709) 749-2421
[email protected]

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

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While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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