'Cod delusion' leaves devastated stocks on the brink

17:19 26 September 2008
NewScientist.com news service
Debora MacKenzie

Fishing vessels on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland are this week destroying the best hope for years that the region's cod fishery, once the world's most abundant, might yet recover.

And at a meeting in Vigo, Spain, governments have rejected a simple measure that might have given the cod a fighting chance.