Fishing vessels on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland are this week destroying the best hope for years that the region’s cod fishery, once the world’s most abundant, might yet recover. And at a meeting ...

Canada has lifted a three-decade moratorium on commercial cod fishing, but there are signs Atlantic stocks have not fully recovered, raising questions about the government's rosy outlook for the ...

image: Haddock and redfish collected during a Department of Fisheries and Oceans survey of the Scotian Shelf. Queen's University researchers William Leggett and Jon Fisher, in collaboration with ...

'This study validates what's been seen on the water and reinforces the need for seal population management' -- Jamie Baker, secretary-treasurer of Newfoundland and Labrador's Fish Food and Allied ...

Editor-in-chief Tom Seaman brings you a roundup of the main stories from the previous week. Undercurrent News' West Coast US-based reporter Jacob Resneck was reporting live from Dillingham, Alaska, in ...

In the 1990s, a single moratorium announcement wiped out an entire industry, leaving 37,000 people unemployed overnight. The ecological collapse of the Canadian Grand Banks Cod Fisheries is the most ...