Essays Tagged: "Atlantic cod"

U.S. Fisheries and the environment: an alternative view

he consumer to boycott all cod, it is dangerously close to perpetrating a fraud against the public. Atlantic cod was over fished by huge internationally-owned factory trawlers that had tremendous impa ... ple the swordfish boycott of 1998 made no distinction between the healthy Pacific and the decimated Atlantic stocks. Seldom is method of capture differentiated: hook and line Atlantic cod fishermen we ...

(5 pages) 73 0 4.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Where Have All The Cod Gone

The northern cod fishing industry is in trouble! During the past 20 years the fishermen of the Atlantic coastline have been over fishing the cod of the region, which has lead to the closure of th ... hired and less people without a job. FPI has made an increasing affect on the cod fisheries of the Atlantic coast and the grand banks off of Newfoundland. FPI has been sold off to people who want to ...

(3 pages) 1452 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Relationship Magnitude Paper: Write on the balance of human, animal and nature from a case study in "Watersheds 4: Ten Cases in Environmental Ethics". Case study Skunked was picked.

restrictions placed on them for fishing.Where do the fisheries stand today? In 1973, the Northwest Atlantic fisheries yielded 4.4. million tons of fish; in 1992, only 2.6 million tons, a decline of 4 ... ed 4.4. million tons of fish; in 1992, only 2.6 million tons, a decline of 42 percent.5 The take of Atlantic cod, crucial to the New England economy, had peaked in 1968 at 3.9 million tons; by 1992, i ...

(3 pages) 87 0 5.0 Oct/2007

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Environmental Case Analysis: Skunked – Crisis in the New England Fisheries

foundland. The Georges Bank up to the 20th century was the richest fishing grounds in the Northwest Atlantic fisheries filled with an abundance of Atlantic cod, haddock, and halibut amongst other spec ... lantic cod, haddock, and halibut amongst other species of fish. (Will the Fish, n.d.).The Northwest Atlantic fisheries yielded 4.4 million tons of fish in 1973. By 1992 there was a decrease of 42%; yi ...

(4 pages) 95 0 4.0 Oct/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Environmental Case Analysis

foundland. The Georges Bank up to the 20th century was the richest fishing grounds in the Northwest Atlantic fisheries filled with an abundance of Atlantic cod, haddock, and halibut amongst other spec ... lantic cod, haddock, and halibut amongst other species of fish. (Will the Fish, n.d.).The Northwest Atlantic fisheries yielded 4.4 million tons of fish in 1973. By 1992 there was a decrease of 42%; yi ...

(4 pages) 31 0 0.0 Apr/2010

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

'Climate change is a terrible problem... It deserves to be a huge priority' - Bill Gates

2009. Print.Plotkin, Jon. "Global Warming Simplified: Climate Change, Timescales and Statistics." Decoded Science. 17. Sept. 2014. Web. www.decodedscience.com"Trade and Climate Change." Geneva: WTO Pu ...

(6 pages) 3 0 0.0 Nov/2014

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science