A fishing boat heading out for some cod at Winterton. File photo Photo by File photo /THE TELEGRAMArticle contentI don’t know how much fish is in the ocean.THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY.Subscribe now to access this story and more:Unlimited access to the website and appExclusive access to premium content, newsletters and podcastsFull access to the e-Edition app, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment onEnjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalistsSupport local journalists and the next generation of journalistsSUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES.Subscribe or sign in to your account to continue your reading experience.Unlimited access to the website and appExclusive access to premium content, newsletters and podcastsFull access to the e-Edition app, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment onEnjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalistsSupport local journalists and the next generation of journalistsRegister to unlock more articles.Create an account or sign in to continue your reading experience.Access additional stories every monthShare your thoughts and join the conversation in our commenting communityGet email updates from your favourite authorsSign In or Create an AccountorArticle contentHead of the Fish Food and Allied Workers’ (FFAW) union Dawn Street was happy with the increase in quota of cod. She also went on to say, “Nobody outside the fishery should have any say, especially groups like Oceana”.Article contentArticle contentIf Oceana and other groups outside the fishery had been involved, we wouldn’t have had a moratorium in 1992.Article contentArticle contentI can remember the FFAW did very little to stop the slaughter. They represented inshore, offshore draggers, plant workers who had to keep their jobs, but they didn’t.Article contentIn 1992, 30,000 people in Atlantic Canada lost their way of life, one they have had for 500 years.Article contentOne person who was not involved in the fishery was the late Cabot Martin who put more into trying to save the fishery than all the fisher people.Article contentI can remember Jake Rice, a scientist with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) talking about the big year ’87 class of juvenile cod that was going to provide us more fish than we could catch. All that cod disappeared somewhere. DFO was good at trying to convince us we were wrong.Article contentIf we are to bring the cod back to its full potential, we have to deal with the caplin and the seals and take the decisions out of hands of the politicians who have done a terrible job managing our oceans.Article contentIt should be put into the hands of a committee made up of responsible people, scientists, fisher people and others, not involved but are concerned about the ocean. We have to start managing the ocean for how much it can produce, instead we are managing it for how much we can catch.Article content(Ret.) Captain Wilfred Bartlett, C.B.C wilfbartlett@hotmail.com Article content
LETTER: Manage the ocean for what it can produce, not what we can catch
