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COD FISHING [14 records]

Record 1 2023-06-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • History
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

While the crews were fishing, teams of shoremen(beach workers under the control of a beach master) washed, cleaned, salted and stacked the cod.... The shoremen had to gut, salt and spread out the cod on flakes or on the beaches so that it could dry. They turned the cod over periodically to protect it from moisture or too much heat.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Histoire
  • Pêche commerciale
CONT

Tandis que les équipages des chaloupes pêchent, les équipes à terre (graviers dirigés par un maître de [grau]) lavent, nettoient, salent et empilent la morue. [...] Une fois la morue nettoyée et coupée, les graviers doivent l'étendre sur des vigneaux pour qu'elle sèche. Ils tournent les morues périodiquement pour les protéger de l'humidité ou d'une chaleur excessive.

Spanish

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Record 2 2023-06-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seafood and Freshwater Food (Food Industries)
  • Commercial Fishing
DEF

... fish which has recently been salted and is still moist.

CONT

The processes used for salting cod are generally the same in most areas and time periods, with some local variations. The colonial New England cod fishery is typical. Cod was either "dry cured" or "green cured. "For a dry cure, fish were usually cleaned, split, salted, and then stored aboard ship after each haul so they would not deteriorate at sea. Once the the ship returned to shore, the fish would be repacked, resalted, and eventually sun dried into tough, durable slabs that could be stacked and stored like wood. Dry curing was used when fishers traveled long distances to fishing grounds. In contrast, green curing, in which the fish were cleaned, salted, and dried on land rather than at sea, was used on shorter trips to nearby fishing grounds.... Because it was a faster process, green curing did not wring as much water out of the fish as dry curing. Green-cured fish therefore was considered to be of lower quality and did not last as long.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Produits de mer et d'eau douce (Industr. alim.)
  • Pêche commerciale

Spanish

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Record 3 2023-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
  • Law of the Sea
  • Environmental Management
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

Distant-water fishing, that is, fishing in areas far removed from a country's domestic waters, existed well before the 19th century industrialization with, for example, Europeans fishing for Atlantic cod... off Newfoundland... Increasing competition between domestic and foreign fishing vessels for national fisheries resources was one of the motivations behind the series of international negotiations in the 1970s and 1980s, leading to the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO
  • Droit de la mer
  • Gestion environnementale
  • Pêche commerciale

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Colaboración con la FAO
  • Derecho del mar
  • Gestión del medio ambiente
  • Pesca comercial
DEF

Pesca que se efectúa en alta mar.

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Record 4 2023-05-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
  • Commercial Fishing
  • Environmental Management
CONT

Cod moratorium of 1992.... the federal government banned cod fishing along Canada's east coast. This moratorium ended nearly five centuries of cod fishing in Newfoundland and Labrador.... The aim of the policy was to help restore cod stocks that had been depleted due to overfishing. Today, the cod population remains too low to support a full-scale fishery. For this reason, the ban is still largely in place.

Key term(s)
  • moratorium on cod fishing
  • moratorium on cod

French

Domaine(s)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO
  • Pêche commerciale
  • Gestion environnementale
CONT

Moratoire sur la pêche à la morue de 1992. [...] le gouvernement fédéral a interdit la pêche à la morue le long de la côte est du Canada. Ce moratoire a mis fin à près de cinq siècles de pêche à la morue à Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador. [...] L'objectif de cette politique était de contribuer à la restauration des stocks de morue qui avaient été épuisés en raison de surpêche. Aujourd'hui, la population de morue reste trop faible pour permettre une pêche à grande échelle. C'est pourquoi l'interdiction est encore largement en vigueur.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Colaboración con la FAO
  • Pesca comercial
  • Gestión del medio ambiente
CONT

El 2 de julio de 1992, el Gobierno canadiense anunció una moratoria sobre la pesca del bacalao, confirmando que las poblaciones habían colapsado.

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Record 5 2023-05-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial Fishing
  • Collaboration with the FAO
CONT

The seine can be operated by... two boats(pair seining). During the fishing operation, the seine ropes herd the fish into the path of the net. The length of seine rope to a large extent determines the shape and size of the fished area. The boat seine is commonly used to catch benthic species such as flounders and soles, but also other demersal species such as cod.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pêche commerciale
  • Collaboration avec la FAO

Spanish

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Record 6 2022-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Commercial Fishing
DEF

A person who engages in cod fishing on the Newfoundland Banks.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Pêche commerciale
DEF

Marin qui fait la pêche à la morue sur les bancs de Terre-Neuve.

OBS

Le terme [terre-neuva] créé au début de XXe siècle a remplacé son synonyme plus ancien, terre-neuvier.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Nombramiento de cargos (Generalidades)
  • Pesca comercial
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Record 7 2022-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
  • Types of Ships and Boats
  • Commercial Fishing
DEF

A vessel used in fishing for cod.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO
  • Types de bateaux
  • Pêche commerciale
DEF

Bateau spécialement équipé pour la pêche à la morue.

Spanish

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Record 8 2022-09-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

... dry cod fishing, also called sedentary fishing[, ] was carried out in land-based long-boats along the coasts of Newfoundland and North America. Cod was salted and dried on shore; thus ships were not used for fishing but rather to transport crews which could be quite sizable(more than 150 men) since they worked partly on land.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO
  • Pêche commerciale

Spanish

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Record 9 2022-08-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
  • Ship and Boat Parts
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

The commonest type of fishing vessel is the trawler[, ] which catches both demersal and pelagic [fish] species.... When the trawl [net] is brought up[, ] it releases its catch in the cod end[, ] down the fish hatch in the trawl deck.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO
  • Parties des bateaux
  • Pêche commerciale

Spanish

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Record 10 2022-07-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
  • Economic Doctrines, Systems and Policies
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

According to [the] policy, a core fish harvester is a full time experienced enterprise owner with [a licence or licences] to fish key species such as cod, crab, and shrimp, and obtains 75 [percent] of his/her income earnings directly from fishing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO
  • Doctrines, systèmes et politiques économiques
  • Pêche commerciale

Spanish

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Record 11 2022-02-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
  • Statistics
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

Human-induced mortality in Pacific Canadian waters is primarily from continued interactions with fishing gears as well as collisions with vessels... Records indicate that basking sharks are readily caught by trawl... and easily become entangled in longlines, gillnets, prawn traps, cod traps, and even herring seines.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO
  • Statistique
  • Pêche commerciale
CONT

La mortalité anthropique dans les eaux canadiennes du Pacifique est principalement attribuable aux interactions de l'espèce avec les engins de pêche et aux collisions avec les bateaux [...] Les enregistrements montrent que les pèlerins peuvent se prendre facilement dans les chaluts [...] et s'emmêler dans les palangres, les filets maillants et les trappes à crevettes et à morue, et même dans les sennes à hareng.

Spanish

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Record 12 2020-08-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of International Laws and Regulations
  • Commercial Fishing
OBS

On December 30, 1981, the Canada/EEC Long-Term Fisheries Agreement... was signed in Brussels … In announcing the Agreement, Ministers MacGuigan and LeBlanc indicated that Canada's benefits from the Agreement would involve substantial reductions of the tariff rates levied by the EC [European Community] on cod, herring and redfish products of special interest to the Canadian fishing industry. This was expected to significantly improve the Canadian industry's competitive position in the European market. The fishing rights and tariff rate quota benefits under the Agreement would extend from 1982 to 1987...

Key term(s)
  • Long Term Fisheries Agreement

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de lois et de règlements internationaux
  • Pêche commerciale

Spanish

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Record 13 2020-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

Cod fishing in Newfoundland was carried out at a subsistence level for centuries, but broad-scale fishing began shortly after the European discovery of the North American continent in 1492, with the waters being found to be preternaturally plentiful, and ended after intense overfishing with the collapse of the fisheries in the 1990s.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pêche commerciale
CONT

Avec la modernisation des techniques de pêche et de l'équipement, la pêche à la morue est très intensive pendant les années 1980.

Spanish

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Record 14 2006-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Names of Special Years, Weeks, Days
  • Festivals, Carnivals and Social Events
OBS

Orangemen's Day, also known as Orange Day is celebrated on July 12th. In Newfoundland and Labrador it is usually celebrated on the Monday nearest to July 12th. Orangemen's Day commemorates the 1690 Protestant victory over Roman Catholic forces in the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland. King William III of Orange, the Protestant King of England, defeated former King James II, a Catholic. The Orange Order was established a century after the Battle of the Boyne and steadily grew in the 19th century as a patriotic bulwark against what many Protestants saw as treasonous Catholicism. By the end of the 19th century Orangemen's parades were commonplace in many Newfoundland communities. In some Newfoundland and Labrador communities, Orangemen's Day celebrations are rescheduled in the winter season so that fishermen on the northeast coast do not lose money during the lucrative cod fishing season.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations d'années, de semaines et de jours spéciaux
  • Festivals, carnavals et fêtes
OBS

À Terre-Neuve, la Saint-Patrick, la Saint-Georges, le jour de la Découverte, le jour du Souvenir (30 juin) et la fête des Orangistes sont aussi des fêtes légales.

OBS

L'ordre d'Orange est une société fraternelle protestante fondée en 1795 en Irlande pour commémorer la victoire de Guillaume d'Orange lors de la bataille de la Boyne en 1690. Pendant l'insurrection irlandaise de 1798, l'ordre d'Orange devient le principal lien entre le gouvernement britannique et les protestants d'Irlande, alors que les Orangistes remplissent les rangs de la milice volontaire et occupent la majorité des postes de la fonction publique. Bien qu'il demeure puissant en Ulster, l'ordre d'Orange perd presque toute son influence en Irlande après l'adoption du Catholic Imancipation Act en 1829. Les loges orangistes adoptent un rituel et un fonctionnement de style maçonnique fondés sur l'entraide mutuelle et l'organisation d'événements à caractère social. Les Orangistes qui s'installent en Grande-Bretagne et dans les colonies britanniques sont aidés par les loges locales qui facilitent leur intégration au nouveau milieu.

Spanish

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