The cods main predators are Seals!! Read a Book. I work in the environment industry, having witnessed seals corner a BC salmon near a dock and take a single bite out of it. Thank God for Orcas,
Newfoundlanders by an large are small boat fisherman, not like European fishing liners the size of a friggin tankers who rape the seas of fish regarless of species off the coast of Newfoundland. That is the problem of overfishing. Newfs kill Seals to control the population, they need to make a living as they did for hundreds of years, their families have to eat, since welfare is not an option they want. MP Tobin over two decades ago had to send Navy warships to stop foreign fishing vessels from encroaching our seas,
Overfishing in part is true, but while newfoundlanders have not fished in over a decade other countries, Portugal and other countries continue to fish cod offshore of newfoundland, taking immature cod etc. Iceland had this problem with other countries overfishing their terroritories until they took action using warships and media to turn away fishing boats, Iceland today has a healthy fishing population and economy, no depleted stocks. Ottawa on the other hand legislated, mandated and pretty much screwed Newfoundlanders by prevernting them from ensuring fishing stocks remained viable. Newfies would not overfish, as this is their livlihood . Reading off Government websites on Cod Stocks for Info is one sure way ingest verbal diaherra from a government. Newfs have lived and fished there for 500 years, so I would surmise they know what they speak of, when the Rodents of the Sea indiscriminately kill Cod laden with thousands and thousands of eggs, something has to be done to cull the seal herd. True not pretty, but then neither is a dead community.
Again, I refer you to read a book, do more research and never rely on Government websites who most bureaucrats likely never fished for their livlihood.
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at 03:08 on January 31st, 2008
The cods main predators are Seals!! Read a Book. I work in the environment industry, having witnessed seals corner a BC salmon near a dock and take a single bite out of it. Thank God for Orcas,
Newfoundlanders by an large are small boat fisherman, not like European fishing liners the size of a friggin tankers who rape the seas of fish regarless of species off the coast of Newfoundland. That is the problem of overfishing. Newfs kill Seals to control the population, they need to make a living as they did for hundreds of years, their families have to eat, since welfare is not an option they want. MP Tobin over two decades ago had to send Navy warships to stop foreign fishing vessels from encroaching our seas,
Overfishing in part is true, but while newfoundlanders have not fished in over a decade other countries, Portugal and other countries continue to fish cod offshore of newfoundland, taking immature cod etc. Iceland had this problem with other countries overfishing their terroritories until they took action using warships and media to turn away fishing boats, Iceland today has a healthy fishing population and economy, no depleted stocks. Ottawa on the other hand legislated, mandated and pretty much screwed Newfoundlanders by prevernting them from ensuring fishing stocks remained viable. Newfies would not overfish, as this is their livlihood . Reading off Government websites on Cod Stocks for Info is one sure way ingest verbal diaherra from a government. Newfs have lived and fished there for 500 years, so I would surmise they know what they speak of, when the Rodents of the Sea indiscriminately kill Cod laden with thousands and thousands of eggs, something has to be done to cull the seal herd. True not pretty, but then neither is a dead community.
Again, I refer you to read a book, do more research and never rely on Government websites who most bureaucrats likely never fished for their livlihood.