Biology 2485B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Maximum Sustainable Yield, Atlantic Cod, John Cabot
20 Dec 2018
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Lecture 12; food from the sea: understand and describe the factors (including technology) that led to the collapse of the grand. Banks cod fisheries case study: technology that led to this crash, understand the concepts of maximum sustainable yield, by-catch, and fishing down the food chain", understand and describe the benefits and drawbacks of aquaculture. Graph: much of the fish (and other seafood) that humans eat is harvested (i. e. , hunted) directly from the wild. Just over 2000 metric tons to over 800 000 metric tons in just a decade: beginning of the 60"s was the beginning of the end. The beginning of the end of the northern cod arrived in 1954 in the form of the british ship, the fairtry the first factory-freezer trawler in the world. These huge stern trawlers, complete with on-board processing plants, enabled their owners to triple their cod catch. : michael harris, from his 1999 book lament for an ocean, atlantic or northern cod (interchangeable)
