“Atlantic Reality”
Driving in Newfoundland, Canada
The Newfoundland cod fishing industry collapsed entirely in the early 1990s owing to overfishing. By 1993 six cod populations had collapsed, spawning biomass had decreased by at least 75% in all stocks, by 90% in three of the six stocks, and by 99% in the case of ‘northern’ cod, previously the largest cod fishery in the world. <Wikipedia>Many towns now depend on tourists, often arriving during the iceberg season in June, for their survival. Miniature villages and fishing boats can be found in unmarked streams by the side of highways. Ironically, they depict fishing villages where there is no longer a fishing industry, or towns that no longer exist at all. Both the miniatures and the towns they depict are picturesque tourist attractions.