There is a theory that the Grand Banks Cod didn't disappear. They moved elsewhere to escape the warming Gulf of St.Lawrence and the Gulf Stream that is slowly moving more to the West. We just haven't figured out where they shuffled off to, yet ... perhaps higher up in the melting Arctic.
Got a link or is that what your brain came up with??
Perhaps the tip that was left as international waters is where all the fish were scooped up by foreign trawlers. Stupid Canadians hard at work for foreign interests, . . . again.
You totally missed this parameter, on purpose. You fukkers really have no shame do you??
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/foreigners-overfishing-dfo-says/article1021244/
Foreigners overfishing, DFO says
Nearly seven years after Canadian patrol boats clashed with European trawlers near the Grand Banks, foreign fishing boats are again overfishing and ignoring a ban on catching scarce species such as cod, flounder and American plaice, federal Fisheries officials say.
The Canadian officials are also angered by the refusal of the 18-nation Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization to back their strongly worded call last week for a crackdown on illegal fishing. The Canadians also asked NAFO, which regulates the fishery outside Canada's 200-mile limit, for more stringent conservation measures to preserve fish stocks in the area.
Some Newfoundland fishermen are calling on the federal government to prevent foreign vessels that violate regulations from entering Canadian ports. There are also demands for Canada to take over managing the fish stocks in the area adjacent to the 200-mile limit.
But federal officials caution that the fishery violations are still a far cry from the piscatorial free-for-all that sparked the so-called turbot war in March, 1995. That squabble saw federal patrol boats clash with foreign vessels and arrest the Spanish trawler Estai and tow it to St. John's.
After those highly publicized confrontations, the members of NAFO agreed to more-stringent conservation measures and increased monitoring of the fishing activity outside the 200-mile Canadian limit. In 1996, only six violations of NAFO regulations were reported.
But in 2000 the number of infractions discovered by Canadian patrol boats jumped to 27 and another 26 incidents were spotted last year. Boats from countries such as Russia, Denmark and the European Union were cited for infractions including exceeding catch limits, failing to keep a record of their catches, using small mesh size to catch immature fish and chasing species on which there is a moratorium.
While the Russians fired fishing captains and stripped vessels of licences after the Canadians cited them, other home countries failed to carry through with prosecutions, Pat Chamut, assistant deputy minister in charge of fisheries management, said in an interview yesterday.
He said there is growing concern in Newfoundland that the foreign fishing off the Grand Banks is impeding the recovery of scarce fish stocks such as American plaice and cod, which used to be the mainstay of many rural communities.
"On the south coast of Newfoundland, the future of many communities depends on the recovery of the cod and American plaice, and those stocks are not going to recover unless we can adequately protect them and they rebuild," Mr. Chamut said.