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Mike Park remembers when he first started working the cod boats out of Aberdeen, on Scotland's northeastern coast. "The fish were plentiful and the boats few," he says. That was nearly 30 years ago. "Then the boats became plentiful," says Park, 43, "and the fish few." Today fish populations have dwindled so dramatically that the European Union's fisheries Commissioner, Franz Fischler, is calling for an 80% reduction by 2003 in catches of the most popular commercial species in European waters. Fischler's proposal doesn't go far enough for some scientists, who warn that if even more drastic...
...everyone so worried about cod? In Britain people eat over 172 million cod dinners a year, most of them from the fish-and-chip shop. Cod is especially vulnerable to heavy fishing, because it is a large species that doesn't reach sexual maturity until at least four years of age. But cod can be harvested from the age of one, which leaves fewer and fewer fish of reproductive age. Whenever collapsing cod stocks are mentioned, the Grand Banks of Newfoundland are held up as a grim example of what can happen if things are left until too late. Canadian...
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...serious. It was one thing for The Eagle in London's hip Clerkenwell district to modernize bangers and mash with an uncompromising concern for good ingredients served in daunting sizes, but things have gotten out of hand when your local boozer starts offering "a flaky pastry pillow filled with cod, hoki [sic] and salmon." And it's not reassuring when that exotic-sounding concoction turns out to be a humble fish pie. Alistair Aird, editor of the Good Pub Guide, has watched in dismay as British pubs have caught the disease of pretentious French restaurants: menu inflation...
...basis, the growing worldwide demand for seafood--which accounts for 16% of global animal-protein intake, up from 14% in the early 1960s. About half the world's wild fisheries have been exhausted by overfishing. In the North Atlantic, one of the most depleted oceans, populations of popular fish (cod, flounder, haddock, hake and tuna) are just one-sixth of what they were a century ago. A European Union panel last week backed calls for a total ban on the fishing of cod in the North Atlantic and a moratorium on the fishing of haddock and whiting there...