So this ment that scientists were only relying on how much fishermen were catching. Before the moratorium inshore fishermen noticed that the fish were getting smaller and fewer. The foreign fishery is not closed down. Here in Newfoundland now we are not allowed to go out and fish but other counteries are allowed to do so. Just out side our 200 mile limit there is what we call the Nose an the Tail of the grand bank.
Foreign trawlers are still out there catching fish on that part of the banks.
The reason why the cod are always around the grande bank is because it makes a ideal habitat. On the nose and the tail these boats are taking all the fish and destroying the habitat and we are trying to get it to come back. There using technology to take every fish out of the water. I think this is very true for the northern cod. Before 1960 the cod stayed pretty stable.