Special edition tomorrow

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a year before the moratorium was declared, fishermen like Ches, Raymond and Clayton Blundell of Hickman's Harbour were still making a living catching cod.

Published on June 27, 2012; Published on June 27, 2012
Barbara Dean-Simmons

Topics :: Northern Cod

To mark the 20th anniversary of the declaration of the moratorium on Northern Cod, the Packet is publishing a special edition tomorrow, June 28, filled with stories on how people and communities were impacted, and are still coping, with the loss of the cod fishery.

Watch the Packet website as well for a special moratorium feature, with stories from around the province, leading up to July 2, the anniversary of the 1992 announcement.

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