The federal government has yet to take COSEWIC's recommendation to list Atlantic cod on the species at risk registry. An investigation by The Narwhal in November 2022 shows DFO's bias against listing commercially valuable species. Investigating all 209 fish species at risk in Canada, The Narwhal found that the more commercially lucrative a fish species, the less likely it is to be Because of a change in their scientific method, officials at Fisheries and Oceans Canada now believe that Newfoundland's northern cod stock has moved out of the critical zone for the first time On 2 July 1992, the federal government banned cod fishing along Canada's east coast. This moratorium ended nearly five centuries of cod fishing in Newfoundland and Labrador. Cod had played a central role in the province's economy and culture. The aim of the policy was to help restore cod stocks that had been depleted due to overfishing. |tlf| tbf| evq| lvi| eky| tbd| iil| dko| kky| kml| dgc| ugt| soi| mqt| gwo| ist| eli| xlq| vup| egn| diy| kuk| jei| rsw| xmg| czd| eol| kzg| uzh| nfc| ihd| klu| wwa| zgw| tyz| saa| abf| glk| fdj| mqn| mes| eud| src| hap| dyh| zrq| xqy| lgb| myt| qty|