Sentences with phrase «atlantic cod fishery»

The journey takes Weidensaul to the coastal communities of Newfoundland, where he examines the devastating impact of the Atlantic cod fishery's collapse on the ecosystem; to Florida, where he charts the virtual extinction of the great wading bird colonies that Peterson and Fisher once documented; to the Mexican tropics of Xilitla, which have become a growing center of ecotourism since Fisher and Peterson's exposition.

The collapse of the Atlantic cod fishery in the early 1990s saw the most abundant fish in the North Atlantic disappear due to overfishing.

Unfortunately, as dogfish numbers have boomed in recent years, international markets have slumped, owing to a rebounding Northeast Atlantic cod fishery and changing tastes.

Not exact matches

The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans, for example, presided over the collapse of Atlantic cod stocks in the 1980s.

That's led to a global collapse of many fisheries, such as cod in the North Atlantic.

«Cod and climate: Researchers use the North Atlantic Oscillation as a predictive tool for managing an iconic fishery.»

Last week the Canadian Atlantic Fisheries Scientific Advisory Committee reported that the tonnage of spawning cod on the Banks was «among the lowest ever observed».

Overfishing off the Atlantic coast, in part owing to the federal government's willful ignorance of its own best science, would lead to the catastrophic collapse of the cod fishery.

Yet the authors marshal clear examples of ecological disasters that have already had serious effects on human society: the collapse of cod fisheries in the North Atlantic, for instance, and the outbreaks of mountain pine beetles that are devastating forests in the West.