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29 May 2009

Everything old is new again, fisheries version

From the New York Times, November 2, 1889, quoting a report by the Newfoundland Chamber of Commerce:

The lobster fishery has been expanded and is now a valuable factor in the exports of the colony “but it is much to be feared that indiscriminate fishing is injuring this industry.”

Then later:

A fisheries department has been organized and it has obtained a Superintendent for the work of artificially replenishing the cod stock.

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