GEOG 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Bottom Trawling, Frozen Food, Flor
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40 000 km coastline large, submerged continental shelf. Raised offshore seabed shallow waters (no more than 50m deep) sea. Shallow waters associated with very high levels of biological activity bank banco metric/topography map (pg. The largest single concentration of cod, historically was on the grand. The grand banks is 250,000 sq. kms and the largest bank in the banks northwest atlantic. 2015: the landed value for canada"s atlantic commercial fisheries was . 8 billion. Majority lobster, followed by crab, salmon, shrimp, scallop, herring, Canada"s fish and seafood exports (pg 13) major industry for canada and cods, clams, etc. global presence. Overfishing = is a circumstance in which the catch is too high; more fish being caught than were reaching maturity to reproduce *unsustainable way of managing resource!! (pg. Evidence in spawning levels for diff. species of cod. Charts showing decrease in cod b/w 1950 -2002 (charts pg.
