In this April 23, 2016, photo, a fisherman carries cod caught in the nets of a trawler off the coast of New Hampshire. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Robert F. BukatyThe federal government has ended the Newfoundland and Labrador cod moratorium, which gutted the province's economy and transformed its small communities more than 30 years ago.
John Crosbie, who was federal fisheries minister at the time, famously said, "I didn't take the fish out of the goddamned water!" to a group of fishermen upset about the dwindling fish stocks. He announced the moratorium a day later.With fish plants closing and jobs drying up, young people in rural Newfoundland and Labrador began to leave for St. John's or mainland Canada to find work.
Now the stock is in the "cautious zone," which means fisheries decisions should still prioritize regrowth. The total catch of 18,000 tonnes for the 2024 season is just a fraction of what it was — 120,000 tonnes, according to a government website — in February 1992, just months before the moratorium. By lifting the moratorium, Rose said, the Fisheries Department is "rolling the dice on this important fishery."
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