A rugged and proud fishing people, 500,000 strong, inhabiting outports dotting the coast of Newfoundland has been brought to its knees and is now begging European overfishers to back off!
When John Cabot arrived in Newfoundland from Bristol in 1497, he reported the fish were plentiful enough to scoop up in baskets -- concentrated enough to slow a ship. What a difference 500 years makes! Today in Newfoundland and within 200 miles of her shores, it is illegal for anyone to catch a cod for any reason! One of the world's richest fishing grounds now teeters on the edge of total extinction.
Yet on the continental shelf outside the Newfoundland-Canada 200-mile limit, on the 'nursery' where the northwest Atlantic Cod and turbot breed, Europeen Community vessels (many from Spain and Portugal, some flying under "flags of convienience") continue to vacuum clean the ocean bottom, destroying the last hope the resource can be saved. The fish now being taken are the smallest of the babies. Nothign else remains. "Et tu EU!" The evil that men do lives after them!
Enough is enough!! What true Britons can stand mute while Eurocentrists impose their "Final Solution" on the once-vast Newfoundland fishery?! The Newfoundlanders who fought in Britain's defence in the World Wars now plead with you to ocme to our defence and save the ravaged turbot.
Tell your politicians! Tell your media!