Sentences with phrase «banned cod fishing»

The Canadian government effectively banned cod fishing in 1992.

Canada has banned cod fishing in what was once the richest cod fishery in the world, the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and Labrador.

The government has insisted it will not ban cod fishing to tackle the decline in stocks, warning it would mark the end of the UK's fishing industry.

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We found that a ban combined with catch quotas has the greatest potential to incentivise more selective fishing, but only for regulated species such as cod, haddock and plaice.

The Canadian government banned fishing on the Banks in 1992, when scientists discovered there were nearly no adult cod left.

Biologists on a multi-state Fisheries Commission committee have found that warmer waters, disease and fishing have depleted lobster stocks, and they recently recommended a five - year ban on lobstering from Cape Cod to Virginia.

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