This article written by Elizabeth Kolbert published in The New Yorker outlines the story of overfishing in many species, first and foremost it outlines the story of the blue-fin tuna. After the history of the bluef-in is thoroughly and most interestingly outlined she moves into discussing the cod fishery in Newfoundland. She mentions Dean’s book, [...]
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CBC Radio Ideas Interview
Industrial fishing developed in tandem with fisheries science. It was scientists who defined the stock and set the allowable catches. And yet Canada’s cod fishery collapsed, never yet to recover, in 1992. Environmental philosopher Dean Bavington asks, what happened? Check out the series, “How to Think About Science” here: CBC IDEAS program with Dean Bavington, [...]
