End of cod moratorium touted after 32 years as Ottawa approves small increase

End of cod moratorium touted after 32 years as Ottawa approves small increase

Source: CBC News

6/26/2024

Credit: Brett Favaro, Marine Institute

Thirty-two years after the federal government announced a moratorium that shut down Newfoundland and Labrador's cod industry, Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier said Wednesday that it is reopening.

But what the federal government described in a statement as the "historic return of the commercial northern cod fishery" will amount to just a small increase in fishing activity that had been allowed during the recent years of the moratorium.

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