GEOG 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Main Source, Carbon Dioxide Equivalent, Atmospheric Circulation
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This placed major restrictions on the amount of fish fishermen could catch. The moratorium was an economic and cultural blow. Eastern canada"s culture is embedded in fishing activities; it is their main source of wealth. In addition to fishermen, it affected jobs involved in processing and selling the fish. (e. g. ) truck drivers. Coastal communities that depended upon the fishery for their livelihood suffered widespread unemployment. The collapse of the cod fishery in newfoundland alone resulted in. During this time, there was political pressure to retain the fishing overcapacity. 2006: cod stocks had not yet recovered sufficiently to allow the reopening of the cod fishery. Small catches of cod by inshore fishers is permitted. It is now a highly-managed industry and only a few fishers have licenses. Cod stocks appear to be coming back thanks to new developments. 31% of the earth"s land area (4 billion hectares) Russian federation = 809 million hectares (largest)
