The Single Biggest Layoff in Canadian History
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- When you're talking about Newfoundland, it's basically impossible not to mention the cod. They were this island's engine for hundreds of years. They were the main driver to colonize this country, and once kept the largest empire in human history fed. But the moment we took them for granted, they all died.
This is the story of the cod.
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CLEAR CUTTING IN BC!!! Since youre in canada, nobody is talking about it. Thats the issue NOW not in the past.
I would, but lost my fishing job. Hoping the carbon paper factory has an opening. Wish me luck.
There were 2 pre-roll ads before your video. Not complaining, just want to make sure you get the money.
Evan, amazing as always but can you please sort out the black title screen at the end. The different fonts are too small on a phone screen, please make the text larger and without the difference being so pronounced. Thanks :)
Thanks! I live in Florida, & I'm 54. I remember seeing news reports from back in the 80s, where the idiotic reporters would just film fishermen saying, "But if the government regulates fishing, I'll go out of business!!!" Even back then, I thought: 'But if they don't regulate fishing, everybody will go out of business.' To this day, I don't understand people's attitudes about such things. They'd rather fish until there won't ever be any more fish - period - than to change how they fish. That's not fear; that's incredible selfishness & stupidity. I sometimes think I'll never really understand people. We face global warming, mass extinctions, unbelievable losses. Yet most of what we hear - even on the news - amounts to devious rhetoric, meant only to keep things the way they are until disaster strikes. All I can say is: somebody must be getting amazingly rich off disaster! tavi.
You’re misinformed.
I remember being young and being out in boat with my father during the food fishery, and seeing a huge Japanese boat a couple hundred meters offshore and being really confused as to why it was there and him saying it was common for illegal foreign boats to fish where we were. i also remember on the same trip catching a really skinny( not small, skinny) cod, and vaguely remember my father saying something about there being some sort of illegal net trap someone must be using on the sea floor, although i forget what he specifically said. Then again my father was a POS who would check other peoples lobster pots while we were out in boat, and i moved away young so i don't know how true what he said was.
I'm from Newfoundland and I just have to say you've done a great job with our history.
The best place on earth
It's so beautiful
Love your work. Great cod piece.
I GET IT!!
That’s what she said…
I had some time on my hands this morning so I gave it a go and translated the video into French using the UA-cam tool for that. I've been wanting to do one of these for a while but just haven't found the time. I figure videos on Canada might be the best place to start since, well, French lol. Anyways, I don't know if this type of thing is of any value to you guys or not. If it is, I might give it another go on other videos when I get a chance. If it isn't, then I'll put it down as just a fun exercise I did this morning for the heck of it and that'll be that. ^^
PS: Obviously you'd have to find a French-speaker you trust to confirm, but it should be up to standard. I wouldn't have submitted it otherwise.
Thank you! We very much appreciate translations! They indeed take a lot of time and effort so we're grateful for community submissions.
Thanks Kata. Glad I could contribute!
It's always risky when an entire economy revolves around one thing.
alberta take notes
@@HipsterShiningArmor and yet they cry for succession
Rare earth I wouldn’t change a thing about your style or anything, easily the most informative, diverse and satisfying channel I’ve come across on UA-cam.
Diverse? Isn't it just history?
@@brixan... It's diverse in that it focusses on issues from all over the world from varied viewpoints. That's very rare on UA-cam. Most social media is politicized and from a very limited ideological perspective.
Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish in moderation and you feed his entire posterity for generations.
What are you doing here lord?
This guy makes some good points
You also need to teach the man how to eat in moderation
JESUS!
I think it was, go forth and multiply, eat the whole world.
I remember the announcement (and the brouhaha over the spanish trawlers). I didn't grow up in Newfoundland, but I was old enough to understood the hit it was for them. As I look over my thoughts about the economy and environmental issues today, I wouldn't be surprised if they were informed by this event. Also, I love/loved heritage minutes. :D Great episode, keep up the grand work.
You documentaries are always wonderfully shot. I love it :)
9:42 - that man. his face . his eyes. The land, sea, your voice and that man. it hit me.
While I do enjoy the content of your videos, my favorite part of a Rare Earth has got to be the endcard op-ed blurb giving little insights into your opinion and some of the challenges involved in filming that specific piece. That little touch doesn't go unappreciated.
The rhythm of the editing is really exceptional and the color correction is spectacular. And by gosh the story is interesting. Well done, Rare Earth.
one aspect you didn't mention was that Canada's capital is in Ottawa. Ottawa was never really interested in defending Newfoundland from international fisheries clustering around the Grand Banks. That would have meant being tough and even a military to ensure a 200 mile limit around Canada. Too bad, eh?? The same effect can be seen on the west coast of Scotland: Norway is aggressively fishing and overfishing that area, and Scottish villages are disappearing, while Norwegian villages prosper.
Now do a video about the collapse of the salmon fishery on the West Coast. Much to do with the same kind of mistakes done on the East Coast.
Jake MC77 it would be functionally same video. Use the metaphors presented in this and apply them to your own needs.
@@davidhelmer149 yep so true.
Maybe in the future, these video takes time to write and film. The majority of the latest videos are about Newfoundland area
Blue pickerel in Lake Erie.
Its like this right: they stay in an area for awhile making videos, then they go somewhere else. I don't think they'll go there next though. Probably someplace warmer, like Jamaica.
This is Rare Earth
I surely wish more people could hear (or better yet LISTEN) to what you're saying. Every single time a resource is found to be profitable, it gets exploited to the point of exhaustion.
When are we as a species going to understand that we have a real, measurable impact on this world?
You can still find some so-called scientists who will attempt to attribute the decline in the cod stocks to something other than man's greed and waste.
My favourite was hungry seals. Just try to imagine how many seals it would take to decimate the cod stocks. We'd be wall-to-wall in seals. Funny how they're so good at hiding, isn't it?
The truth is, we as a species have always had a disproportionate impact on the environment, locally and globally and it's long past time we owned up and tried to use our "massive brains" to find a better way.
Rare Earth is one piece of the puzzle, objectively (to the best of your ability) defining the history of the issues and giving people the opportunity to reflect on how we got here and perhaps come up with a plan to get out.
It won't be easy. However long it takes to get into a crisis, it usually takes at least twice as long to get out, but the journey has to start now.
I've been saying it for years now, but the time of when will people realize it's now, old habits die hard, fossil fuels and other things are too engrained within our societies, but we are also like a teenager realizing for the first time that yes our actions have consequences, we are like a 17 years old with a lot of untapped potential realizing he cannot breath very well now because he smokes too much and he doesn't know how to react because he grew alone and none ever told him that was bad
It seems to me that the problem is not that we do not know these things, the problem is ultimately that we are not wired to act in such a way.
Think about it, over the billions of years that life developed on this planet, evolution was driven by immediate issues, not what might happen in half a century.
And these things still shape how we think today, a lot of the issues we face are a direct result of being left with all sorts of tendencies that was useful once, but are poorly adapted to our current conditions.
One of the problems is those in power have a mentality that its not my problem leave it for the next generation.
As long as they serve to gain from it in the short term in there mind.
And they keep that mentality to the point of denial that the consequences are happening now not generations away.
I agree completely. The problem is, the same thing happens with the "Presidents For Life" throughout history, whether you're talking about kings, dictators or the "central planning" commissions of the former Soviet Union. In their case, the attitude is not "what will look good to the electorate for the next four years" but "what do I care, I'm in power no matter what happens" (at least until the next bloody revolution).
As much as people tend to have a deep suspicion of "government regulations", I think perhaps the only way forward is going to be enshrining hard, specific regulations in law that cannot be changed no matter who is in power.
Needless to say, this would probably be a recipe for corruption and disaster, but unless we want to go the way of absolute dictatorships this is probably our best bet.
As the saying goes, "Democracy is the worst form of government--except for all of the others".
An informed electorate would help, but there's an awful lot of willful ignorance out there, even at the highest levels. (Alternative facts, anyone?)
Michael Cherry your blessed and better off then any other generation because of these so called faults. SHAME ON YOU! you it there benefiting from the same out of control people that are destroying the world and pass judgment. FREEDOM is the most important rescources and fools like you would destroy others in the blink of an eye and then give up your own.
This is brilliant. What a great reflection on what we face today in so many other fishing industries. Sharing this one!
Everyone knew that something fishy was going on.
They knew it wasn't up to scale
@@menib7574 bruh
I love this Newfoundland series you've been uploading lately, as a Canadian myself I barely know anything about that province and this has been very interesting so far.
Is this where Britains love affair with "fish and chips" came from. the cod supply from Canada?
@Daver G Making locals have to go further and further out....leading to more and more disappearing?
Correct!
They're an Island so it was kinda destiny. Of course, they wouldn't have "chips" if not for the New World either.
Yuck, fish and chips! 🤢
@@artman7780 perhaps you haven't had them made the right way....fish and chips are gooooooood.
As a Newfoundlander. Thank you for telling this story.
I had a Chris Hadfield Masterclass ad before this video. :)
What's a "masterclass"? Is that like what they offered at Trump University?
Considering what the fishermen were saying back when the moratorium was put in place I'm pretty sure the slow recovery has a lot to do with fishermen going out and fishing cod regardless of it. Who's going to commit political suicide by arresting a fisherman for doing their job? Even if they are fishing a seriously endangered fish with a moratorium, people are obviously going to remove it from that context to demonize them.
That is EXACTLY it...
DFO hangs out on the wharves. If you get caught you can lose your license to catch any fish. Think again.
@@rosestewart1606 Considering the incredibly negative reception to the moratorium it's obvious there will be DFO workers siding with the fishermen. That and offloading your catch where/when the DFO isn't watching.
@@LAG09 it's not individual fishing boats that are the problem. It's also not the indigenous fishers that the moratorium doesn't apply to. The factory freezer trawlers are still out there. And if you watched the video at all you'll know that no matter how little fishing is done in the inshore fishery, if they're still fishing in the offshore the fish won't be coming into the inshore.
You have this ability to take the stories of others and make them sound as if they are your own, as if you were there. Although I'd argue you are doing right now what you are best suited to do, I think you'd also make a fantastic history teacher. Thank you.
"But remember folks, regulating industries is wrong and is the first step on the slippery slope to communism!"
-The kind of people I hate.
Everything in moderation, as the saying goes.
@@TeaBurn Commie talk. You're supposed to take everything you can and screw everyone else. /sarcasm
The problem is not regulation, it is human short sightedness. In this cod example, the entire country's economy depends on cod. Everyone want to continue fishing cod. The officials are elected by the people. How are they able to put down regulations that go against the will of the people? If they try, they will be voted out.
What are you talking about? Protecting species from Extinction is not the same as regulating industry as part of a liberal, communistic agenda
@@zacharyhenderson2902 They're not the same. They just get called the same by Conservatives in America, which makes them the same in the eyes of the uneducated who are not capable of thought.
This is not rare, as it happened and is still happening almost everywhere on earth. ; (
This universe is finite, its resources finite. If life is left unchecked, life will cease to exist.
@Structure Agency Who was arguing against capitalism in this thread or in the original video? Defensive much?
Simon Kete Not in Alaska! We know how to fish properly
The Chesapeake Bay with Stripped Bass (Rockfish)
Correction: the Newfoundland banking collapse wasn’t in the late 1900’s. It was in 1894
I say in the late 1800's, not 1900's. No?
Damn it, I didn't. Well, in the script it is correct at least. :)
@@RareEarthSeries damn good script
West Virginia (where my mom's families from) has the similar story to newfoundland but almost or even worse. With coal dying the state has been dying too. You should cover wva, especially the southern part where my people are from
That last bit... That's the truth. Everything can and will fall off you keep at like it will not
There are two ways to exploit a natural resource: mine it, or be a steward.
Miners find the resource, do everything they can to eliminate or minimize competition, harvest it as expeditiously and completely as feasible, then leave the mess for someone else to clean up while they move on to the next site.
Stewards take the measure of the resource, learn how to handle it and extract an amount periodically that will still allow for replenishment, as well as what they need to provide to facilitate said replenishment, and then they can reasonably proceed in the knowledge that they will not kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
Roughly put, mining (as I've described it) works for minerals (which is not to say that it still doesn't have its drawbacks), while stewardship is best applied to organic products. Still, farming the same crop year after year while pumping in petrochemically derived fertilizers and insecticides to increase yields could be thought of as mining; so could most North American timber harvests.
Does any of that minimize the pain inflicted when the government steps in to end a livelihood? Has any industrialist ever been 'laid off'? A lot of questions were left unanswered here...
I don't quite understand why people don't farm cod in Canada, in fact, fish farm appears to be rare in this country. I suspect there are people farm this fish some where else. Though over farming is pretty destructive to environment too, but in some aspect, it is more sustainable way of industrilizing the production.
@@user-jh6vt8vx4v There are fish farms, but they're pretty bad too. While they do produce fish, they also generally are large polluters of the surrounding waters (often a river.) Keeping fish that evolved to make use of the great expanse of the ocean in a small pool tends to be.. gross.. to say the least. And all that gross that would normally settle over hundreds or thousands of acres of ocean floor just gets concentrated and squirted into the nearest waterway.
Fish farming may be better than driving the species extinct, but its certainly not an ideal solution.
@@altrag So then farm the fish and release for maturation?
Most fertilizers are animal and slaughterhouse waste based.
@@jamiecanivet247 That's pretty unlikely to happen. No fish farm is going to waste their time and money raising fish that anyone (or anything for that matter) can just freely go out and capture, providing zero return on investment.
That may be a plan that certain conservation efforts could attempt, but its not something we'll likely ever see any commercial ventures doing.
Look forward to these every week
Don't tell me what to do!
“Tragedy of the Commons” - Hardin, 1968
Cannot help thinking the same fate might be in store for Alberta oil sands. Another great upload. Keep up the good work.
It isn't just the Sands, it's also the petroleum deep underground that will disappear sooner rather than later. Unfortunately nearly everything we consume/ use, relies on petroleum products one way or another.
Those credits at the end are fantastic. Thank you for the video, and specifically for *that*.
"found at Dildo" what.
Give it a week or two and there'll be a whole video on it. :)
@@RareEarthSeries Dear god. Dildo inbound!
Delightful place, great BBQ, dont forget to see captain Dildo
@@andypaul1503 Que spongebob music, in all honesty i dont know if i want to meet Captain Dildo or then again maybe i would, not really sure.
Dildo Trinity Bay, my friend.
Cod is pretty delicious not gonna lie chief
When fresh and done right? best kind. If your gonna have it salted then make sure to soak if in advance or your gonna preserve your gut.
@@andypaul1503 heck yeah
I'm an Englishman and I do like the occasional fish and chips. However, I prefer haddock to be honest. More flavour.
Alabama native, also a lover of fish and chips, but I prefer grouper above every other species.
Dude every 10 min on your channel should be 3 seasons on Netflix
The same can be said for so many of our other resources- the forests we're burning to raise cattle, the co2 we're pumping into the air.
I know this sentiment isn't usually well received, but go veg. Even if just on mondays, even if just a day or 2 a month, start wherever you can, because everything helps. This Earth might not be around to sustain our grandkids at the rate we're currently going.
I'm not saying become one of those vegan warriors, whose overzealous approach often has the opposite effect as they had intended. But it takes between 6 and 20 pounds of grain to produce one pound of meat - it's inefficient - not only do the cattle need land to be cleared/deforested for their living spaces, but also for their food. I'm not here to preach morals or superiority - I'm simply speaking of efficiency. What we're doing isn't sustainable, on land or sea. Something has to give.
This sentiment leads to people saying that we are just going to abandon ship quite literally to another planet. I think it would be better if we could just agree to manage ourselves as a society instead of individuals. They were able to bring down the entire industry when it was to late and so could've done so when it wasn't they just might have been unable to see the signs.
But we should be able to know better if i don't get to eat a certain animal because of problems that would cause to the earth for a year or maybe 5 i would not mind - but outright denying yourself something you enjoy doesn't make sense in my head
Often the "vegan warriors" are the ones who are the most controversial so they get a lot of attention, these types of people are not exclusive to vegans. Most of us dislike them as much as you do.
The rest of us are much more reasonable.
Many of the people who act brazen on UA-cam do it for profit. For example:
Vegan gains: A very controversial channel - 145 million views
Mic the Vegan: A scientific channel with very informative videos - 22 million views
There are way more reasons vegans have such a stigma, and a lot of it has to do with psychology not with being vegan.
The science is bulletproof but the social image is disproportionately bad, mostly because of online media, and it's very sad to see it this way.
Go vegan just mean that we consume something else, it doesn't solve the problem that we as human overconsume resource.
@@chusnulmaulana3081
If it hypothetically takes 100 liters of CO2 to produce 100 calories, and another option takes 10 liters to create 100 calories, then there's a 10x difference.
Now upscale that to 7+ billion people consuming the worst option and you end up with a climate crisis.
At least it's a step to overcome our over-consumption problem.
@@chadoftoons "but outright denying yourself something you enjoy doesn't make sense in my head". Isn't that kind of the problem? We enjoy fast cars, burgers, fancy cosmetics and so on but these all have negative effects, and it's the selfishness of saying "I'm not prepared to go without" which drives companies to exploit more resources, clear more ground and generally be more cutthroat in pursuit of profit. China produces around 30% of global CO2 emissions but that is mostly to supply the wants of consumers in other countries, not their needs.
I do get your point on denying yourself everything you enjoy - with the best will in the world that doesn't lead to happy and stable people imho. Personally I think there should be 1 thing we each let ourselves go with a little bit without worrying too much about the consequences. For me, I will splash out on computer equipment like some people would splash out on a fancy car or fashion. But with everything else, I do my best to reduce my footprint as much as possible, live pretty minimally, and not indulge a lot of the stuff I would like. Recently I also started altering my diet to include less meat, helped partly by moving somewhere that isn't the UK and doesn't include it by default in every single meal, and I've actually been finding it much easier than I expected. Vegetarian food back in the UK never appealed to me at all - it all seemed designed just to be fashionable, and half of the ingredients in it are still not farmed sustainably. Avocados are a cliche but good example of this, with Mexican farmers clearing forests and producing more carbon emissions to meet global demand while many consumers seem generally unaware/uncaring about it. Over here (Netherlands) I'm finding that vegetarian options are much more common, genuinely tasty even for a lifetime carnivore like me, and are generally marketed with a bit more awareness of sustainability and where their ingredients came from. I resisted changing my diet for quite a while - up until a New Scientist article this year sort of forced me to confront the issue with what I was doing - because I like food and, well, basically thought it would make me miserable - but it's way less painful than I imagined. I would agree with Danielle above - you don't have to go completely vege or vegan, but you can reduce the meat you consume and also pay attention to where your meat is coming from when you do buy it and have some effect.
There are numerous situations just like this one being the collapse of the sardine fisheries of Monterey Bay, CA. way before this event as written in "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck. Just more proof that those that "those who forget get the past are doomed to repeat it."
That opening shot looks so good it's almost fake looking
no, Newfoundland just looks that way
Your dad was the advertisement before your video I don’t know if you plan that or if it was a happy accident but made me smile love you and your dads work
A classic economic situation called the "tragedy of the commons"... I have my bachelor's degree in natural resource management, there are so many examples of this throughout history... it truly is tragic. Though politically I tend to favor libertarianism, this is one of the areas I favor government intervention... but even then its complicated.
Enjoying every video you make!
This is such a Hard Problem. We are so far from a proper solution to it still. I've looked into it, starting as a youth with a "why can't we just..." attitude, and slowly learning that every simple solution turns out to have a very good answer.
I just realized that my comment can apply to like 85% of Rare Earth videos...I'm not sure how I feel about that.
As a Newfie, I can say that I have a couple family members that would have some choice words about you lmao. This province is extremely prideful in its industries and locals that they’re extremely hostile to any outside intervention. This was a very good video, but not one that I think would change many minds.
A great introduction to eating cod is bacalao/bacalhau in Spanish/Portuguese and generally most Latin American cuisine. The word really means salted and dried cod, as it was traditionally preserved, but these people have been learning for hundreds of years how to make tasty dishes with old dry fish and it's actually totally delicious. And to bring it back to Newfoundland, the "bacal-" word root found for salted cod all across Europe might actually have come, via Basque fishermen, from the Beothuk language itself (according to John Cabot).
@@jockslap Sure, but you can probably eat the occasional cod dish (especially in something more cod-specific than, say, fish and chips) relatively guilt-free, at least as far as Newfoundland is concerned. The amount of cod coming from the Northwest Atlantic nowadays is almost a rounding error of the global market: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod#/media/File:Time_series_for_global_capture_of_all_cod_2.png
Another great video. Well done. You should do more videos on this great home-land of ours. There's lots of subject-matter to be discussed in that arena. Kudos.
I remember reading about fisherman hauling 200lbs cod out of the north sea in the 17th century.
With how this started I honestly thought you were going to talk about the Asbestos Industry there in Canada. Still a great video and as always it's a pleasure to watch.
When I stood on Norris Point in 1992(3?) the big discussion surrounding everywhere else we went was whether or not tourists should be allowed to catch cod, even a single one. The argument was that it would draw tourists in but the locals weren't buying it.
Consumers are to Cod what Commercialism is to the Fishing Industry. Constant bombardment of buying ploys are unsustainable. When a nation lives off of the credit future of its consumers it's a sure sign that the consumer base has already collapsed. See the parallel. Thumbs up for providing an insightful template to any industry that over fishes its base. The cure was not to kill the entire industry but to allow only Labrador fishing, prohibiting in and out fishing. Any good manager of a stock knows to not hunt in your own back yard or to hunt at the extreme limits of the reserve allowing both sides to fill in the middle.
I have to say something now, very seriously. This is heads down, the best introduction i have ever heard.
I think this has been my favorite episode so far.
I remember when it happened. I have a colleague at work who is from St. John's. I've asked him when he moved to Ontario, but haven't asked him why.
Great video. Fascinating I had no idea
It still affects a lot of people here. I know lots of family that were hit hard by it. As Evan said it was a big reason for why we've shifted more to oil/hydro-energy, and why there was a bit of a migration of Newfoundlander's to the mainland in recent years.
Oh, for just one time I would take the northwest passage, and race the roaring fraisier to the sea, I'd like to see you do a little video on Stan Rodgers if it isn't too much trouble
I love every last video you put out
Awsome Video. I hope yall never get tired of doing this
I didn't think I wanted to see more about the cod fishery, but this was still interesting, especially the historical parts.
got a Chris Hadfield masterclass ad before this
love the bleek and gray color grading, makes the video feel feel cold and isolated!
They never should have allowed other countries take our fish.
PS: Thanks for taking time to talk about Newoufnland in your latest videos.
It's not our fish. It belongs to everyone.
@@soulscanner66 I would have limited it to countries which are closer to newfoundland.
If the fish migrate close to other places say Spain for example, I don't expect Spain to allow Newfoundlanders to fish off their shores.
Hard to stop the over-fishing 200 miles off shore.
I've been watching your videos for a couple of days now and I just now read the credits
To say it's everybody's fault is crap. The federal govt. constantly over reaches into our lives, and the few things they should look after like this fishery when it concerns foreign countries working our resources, expose their incompetence, and it hurts our way of life.
I literally just handed an essay about this this morning! I wish I'd seen this sooner!
So you probably use gmail, google saw all your fishery references and thought: 'I know what he needs to see on youtube..' :P
I get cardgame videos recommended when I gchat to my friend about them.
My grandfather was a fisherman in Lofoten, Norway.
This story of yours reflects quite a lot what he had to live through.
And this is on the other side of the Atlantic. In one that is still today considered one of the richest fishing areas in the world.
Also Rare Earth You should try out Norwegian Cod, the way we prepare Cod gives it a much better taste.
Ever tried Lutefisk? Klippfisk is another really delicious treat, although I'm not sure if its the fish, or the bacon that makes it delicious. but worth a try!
Search it up! Not to hard to make!
i’m looking into those two dishes. all my life i thought i didn’t like cod, but i suspect it might be how it was prepared.
@@yoymate6316 Lutefisk is a very hit and miss dish. It really depends on the preperation for this dish.
Majority of people who make this, dosn't make this dish correctly.
There is 1 place I know of that does make it really well. Enhjørningen in Bryggen, Bergen.
They tend to get it right.
It shouldn't be to Gelatin-like. But more like a nice Pork-cutlett with the fat on the edge. with a thin outer layer of gelatin like consistency and texture, and more solid texture inside.
Lutefisk is a very difficult dish to prepare correctly. But once you get the hang of it, it becomes really easy.
Its just about getting the timing right and finding the salted fish that has been salted the right amount.
Another pit-trap with lutefisk is that many people prepare it towards their preferred taste, which becomes a mistake as people take to Gelatin-consistency very differently. Some love it, others hate it.
You want to always try hit the middle ground.
Henche why you have many coming out with vastly different reviews of a resturant that prepares this dish.
Your videos are always a welcome addition to my morning
No resource found in nature is really to big to fail. As one working in the environmental field, I really appreciate this lesson from history. Thanks.
Just got an add about your dad's masterclass on this video. Sounds pretty interesting
I think they're happening where I live too, just that you guys had saved us before we got too carried away. (and no it never got industrialized locally.)
Cod tastes great if properly cooked. Try boiling some potatoes along with some cauliflower. When they're about 5 minutes to be ready, add the cod to the pan. Once they're done, get a frying pan on the fire, add some olive oil and some garlic, let it get medium hot (no need to make it smoke), add some paprika (the sweet kind, no need for the spicy one unless personal preference, or maybe a combination of both kinds, but short on the spicy one), turn off the fire as you're mixing the paprika with the oil and immediatly add some white wine vinegar (not too much, it depends on personal taste), mix well and quickly so the paprika doesn't get burnt although the fire is already off.
Cod, potatoes and cauliflower to the plate, spread some of the previous sauce all over it.
Enjoy.
Great presentation about the topic of human greed and short sightedness. Great presentation style
There seems to be so many times when powerful people make the mistake of building an economy (or in this case, an e-cod-omy) around one thing and think it's gonna last forever. Hell, we make fun of banana republics often for doing this, yet it's not unique to that scenario. All takes is a wonder crop/material/food, people with a lot capital and a lot more hubris and if nothing is managed, it turns out to be a lot more frail than everyone thinks.
Thank you for the great videos! If you ever decide to do any on Nevada, my little town qualifies as "rare earth".
Another great episode.
A lesson we will seemingly never learn no matter how often we face similar situations. Humanity is stuck in a perpetual present, unable to acknowledge a future. And the more technology we have, the more rapidly the destruction of our future gets.
Great episode. Love the credits screen.
Beautiful province, both the scenery and the people.
All these videos are a revelation. We're all here on the same frequency...EYES
I always love the end credits on these vids, so Good!
But the problem is that Ottawa gave the foreign trawlers permission to fish in Canadian waters. They traded the rights away for the privilege of trading other goods. It wasn't just Newfoundland that had their economy crushed. This happened in all of the Atlantic provinces.
Not relevant for two reasons:
1. Most of the Grand Banks are in international waters where Ottawa has no jurisdiction.
2. Ottawa has no way of stopping foreign trawlers entering our waters. The Canadian navy just isn't big enough.
@@jockslap Man. can you tell that they've legalized weed?
Do an episode.of the fishing that destroyed the horn of Africa, forcing them to turn to Piracy forced upon them by the warlords just to get by.
Stan Rogers did a song about this.
Good storytelling and cinematography
I love your shows there grate.
It's so weird seeing places I've Been in one of these videos. Newfoundland doesn't get much recognition, so I'm always surprised to see my home outside of local media.
I feel like I am the only one here cause I found this channel by accident and not cause of your famous Astronaut father.
Btw, I love the channel and learning new things about this Planet. Keep up the good work
An ingesting history lesson. I have to wonder at peak exploitation how many people where feed,and how far flung they where from the resource. The moratorium impacts them as well.
Your camera guy deserves a raise.
This is a very good video, have you done podcasts before or guested on one? I think that would be quite successful.
Excellent story.
After the fisheries closed, everyone put out of a job - all of them - came to Calgary to work as construction laborers and/or Fort McMurray to work as oil rig hands.
All of them.
Nope. Actually many re trained and went to other places or stayed home. You guys actually don’t know what you’re talking about.
Excellent documentary!
Newfoundlanders should had done as their second closest neighbors. Icelandic codfishing industry has ups and downs much longer than Newfoundland counterparts but managed to regulate the fushing (at least untill now) and still lives pretty well out of it.
As I understood the NF/Greenalnd/iclandic/Norewegian codstocks differ slightly genetically but when a stock doeskin recover in 20-30 years at some level there might be a solution to rein plant the most common specie found able.
The tragedy of the commons applies to the ocean as well. If the fishery had an owner it would have an advocate that would use it wisely.
The rate at which the central interior of B.C.’s forest is getting logged worries me. The bug kill came they wanted to clean it up but now that’s it’s mostly gone will the logging slow down? Or will it be full steam ahead because everyone’s livelihood depends on it until there’s nothing but plantations left and nothing to log?
I've gotta give it to Evan, at this point he's spent almost 6 weeks in the coldest part of the continent. In the end it's worth it, because of this.
Lovin' the beard, my dude. Great episode.
*Why not set up fish nurseries ¿?*
Why not help the fish to grow in numbers and then harvest them a few years later ?
Look up norwegian salmon.