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A season of change: How N.L. s wild fisheries have gone from plentiful to pitiful If a comeback is even a remote possibility, we have to give cod and capelin a fighting chance and we must use the best tools at our disposal, writes Jenn Thornhill Verma. Social Sharing In a remote corner of northern Newfoundland, we got to know the locals mostly whales, fish and seabirds Posted: May 02, 2021 7:00 AM NT | Last Updated: May 2 Jenn Thornhill Verma says watching the marine life off the coast of Quirpon Island with her then eight-month-old daughter gave her hope for Newfoundland and Labrador s wild fisheries.(Submitted by Jenn Thornhill Verma) ....
A new film, released today by McIntrye Media and Canadian Geographic, puts the east coast cod fishery collapse back in the spotlight, nearly three decades later. Funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, the animated short film called Last Fish, First Boat recounts the 1992 cod moratorium, from the perspective of fifth-generation fisherman, Eugene Maloney. Film synopsis When the cod fishery collapsed, fisherman Eugene Maloney’s livelihood is yanked out from underneath him. All his pride, all his life, everything he’s ever known is suddenly gone. Gene doesn’t recall spending days and weeks on land, certainly not in summertime. But here he is with fishing gear that’s no longer of any use. In the spring of 1992, when the Canadian government shuttered the cod fishery, Gene had fished his last cod, marking an abrupt end to a five-generations-old way-of-life for the Maloney family. But every bit the enterprising Newfoundlander, Gene turns the end of the fis ....