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Originally Posted by Eric
Newfoundland was built on the Grand Banks fishing ... and the outports still live off it ... I remember Fleetwood, even Knot End. The fishing grounds have been screwed over by over fishing ... I remember reading that Cabot told Henry Vll that the cod on the Grand Banks were so numerous that one could walk on them. No more. However, we are now policing our territorial waters more rigourosly. We even built a new class of warship, the "Kingston Class", which is specifically designed as a coastal defence ship, and is often used to warn off foreign fishing vessels that come into our territorial waters.
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not only the Grand Banks being stripped bare , here in California the commercial Salmon season has been cancelled again for the second year , no fish returning to the spawning grounds .
apologies to original poster for thread wander but fish and cormorants do have a lot in common
