Who are these people posting here?  Are they idiots, trolls, or just unaware? The federal government of Canada decides who catches fish, what type of fish, when they catch fish, and have done so since 1949. Therein lays the problem.  They have mismanaged and decimated it by using the resource as a political football in the Maritime Provinces and as leverage to support Canadian trade since 1949. The Canadian government has never attempted to manage this incredibly rich, profitable, renewable resource for the benefit of the Atlantic region.    Canadians are too stupid to realize that the worlds greatest source of protein exist off our shores and is being wasted.  Look to Iceland, Norway or practically any fishing nation in the North Atlantic and see Canada as the laughing stock of the North Atlantic Fishing Organization