The Lobster Trap: Why Atlantic Canada’s golden fishery may be headed for collapse
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Seasplainer is The Independent’s fisheries, oceans & climate change explainer series, travelling to the boots and boats in harbours of the Northwest Atlantic to relay the best-available evidence on fisheries and oceans. Award-winning journalists Jenn Thornhill Verma and Leila Beaudoin cover a range of topics relevant to fisheries management, marine biodiversity, ocean climate, environment, natural resources, and more.
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Ahead of the provincial election, all parties agree the province needs a stronger voice with Ottawa, but they diverge on priority areas
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Doubling Northern cod catch limits ran counter to what scientists and key stakeholders called for — so what’s behind the decision?
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Fishing fatalities are preventable and the workforce is shrinking. So why aren’t there fewer deaths in Canadian commercial fisheries?
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Ottawa’s ‘historic return of the commercial Northern cod fishery’ sidesteps science that finds all populations of Atlantic cod in Canadian waters are historically low
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Harvesters in Newfoundland and Labrador preparing for the worst.
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News that Northern cod likely moved out of the critical zone for the first time in decades could be called historic, but all Atlantic cod populations in the Northwest Atlantic ocean remain historically low
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Warming waters and extreme weather in the Northwest Atlantic are creating an inhospitable environment for the fish, and fishers too.
Fishers are Back on the Water
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