HMS Malcolm (F88) "Malcolm"s medical support was essential to fishing operations off Iceland. The Ministry of Defence decided not to replace "Malcolm" immediately, probably because the situation had calmed somewhat (1970 was between the first and second Cod Wars). Responsibility for supporting the fishing fleet was henceforth the Department of Trade and Industry's. The dispute ended in 1976 in a face-saving treaty and victory for Iceland. Two years later, "Malcolm" was decommissioned. She was considered too small to act as a modern frigate and therefore unable to continue service into the 1980s. HMS Malcolm (F88) HMS "Malcolm" was a anti-submarine frigate of the
Collapse of the Atlantic northwest cod fishery Collapse of the Atlantic northwest cod fishery In 1992 the Canadian Federal Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, John Crosbie, declared a moratorium on the Northern Cod fishery, which for the preceding 500 years had largely shaped the lives and communities of Canada's eastern coast. Fishing societies interplay with the resources which they depend on: fisheries transform the ecosystem, which pushes the fishery and society to adapt. In the summer of 1992, when the Northern Cod biomass fell to 1% of earlier levels, Canada's federal government saw that this relationship had been pushed to the breaking point, and declared a moratorium,