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Ecological Amnesia: Reflections on Historical Change and the Northern Cod Moratorium

By Andrew Nurse On June 26th, Fisheries and Oceans Canada announced what it called the “historic decision” to end the northern cod moratorium. Its press release was, in fact, at pains to establish this decision’s supposedly historic character in a twofold sense. First, the announcement suggests that a long period in Atlantic regional history – the era of the moratorium… Read more »