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Originally Posted by Sea Dangles
Canada protects their fishery.
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Are you kidding? Canada raped its own cod fishery. As soon as they got the 200 mile limit and got the soviet and other country's fish factories out of their waters, they set up a program to loan money to build new, much bigger cod trawlers - just like the Soviets had used. As a result, their cod fishery was overfished and destroyed. The Canadian cod fishery off Newfoundland was closed in 1992. And the Newfoundland dory fishermen were put out of business, putting hundreds of villages on welfare. The Canadian cod disaster is a classic example of governments doing the worst possible things to produce temporary jobs. It was really one of the worst environmental disasters since the bison were slaughtered on the American plains.
Good job, Canada.