I'm sure that the 100s of boats fishing the Whaleback during the spawning season had no impact either....
Blaming one group is ignorant. Just saying.
I use to go out every summer and jig a tub of cod for my freezer. But they let the Draggers kill off the cod and punish the hand line fishermen.
Great picture of years gone by! I remember the old timers telling stories of rowing out and catching giant cod with hand lines or haddock one after another between the Isle of Shoals and the main land. Course as these people die off, the stories will be no more. The purge of fishing history will be manipulated in a way to make one believe it's as good now as it ever was...