These offshore draggers are off the coast of Newfoundland dragging their big fishing nets along the bottom taking all of the fish and ruining there habitat. It seems that everyone want's to blame everyone else. People are too greedy and should try to manege the stock more carefully. There has not been a lot done to manage the cod stock here in Newfoundland. They also determine the total allowable catch, set quotas, give licences to fishermen.
Scientist do research every year.
It is not very easy to give a estimate on the amount of fish that is out there because they are not viable. 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.