You know, when you go into the grocery store and buy some fish, you never really give much thought to the bigger picture.
I got talking to an Australian friend the other day who had just returned from a Newfoundland holiday. He got talking to an old guy from Twilingate who was describing the situation in years past: "The capelin are little fish about yea big," (holding his thumb and first finger spanned apart) "and they would come running in from the open sea to this harbour to spawn. And the whales would follow the capelin in to feed on them. There used to be whales everywhere in this harbour because of the capelin. Now, because the capelin fishery has been overfished, there's hardly any coming into the harbour, and so there's no whales either."
So, we'll be seeing "post fishery" Newfoundland in a stage of transition to other types of industry. Fishing will be more and more of the past, and something to reminisce over.
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