INSANITY is our focus this Saturday morning with one of our most brilliant scientists laying the groundwork for how we continually adversely manipulate our environment for short term versus long term gain-----INSANITY: "Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"---Albert Einstein ...........................In this case, our insanity on display though our decimation of one of the most prolific COD FISHERIES in the world--- off of our New England coast,,,,,,,,,,,,Historically, fishermen reaped 70,000 metric tons from this "food oasis" in 1861........... By going "BUFFALO CRAZY" on the Cod, and not allowing for proper regeneration of the stock, the New England fishery only yielded about 54,000 metric tons in 1880, and then went into freefall to about 20,000 tons in the 1920s, to just a few thousand metric tons in recent years-----OUR INSANITY ON DISPLAY, AS IT IS WITH ALL THINGS THAT MAKE OUR PLANET UNIQUE, INHABITABLE AND JUST PLAIN AWE INSPIRING

IN November, regulators from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shut down recreational and commercial cod fishing in the Gulf of Maine

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Where Have All the Cod Gone?