Well that's about right - about every 3 years someone trying to get promoted in PETA, brings this up and the Canadian government or NFLD government pulls out the basic statement.
"It's club some every year or let 98% starve to death, take your pick Peta."
Btw there is a well known song among the roughhands of the newfies about how, all it took was 3 spanish trawlers to take away all the fish one day in the 90s. Were it not modern times and they not a "NATO" ally it would have meant war. Did not really make international news.
So, yeah blame the spanish. That's why the fishing industry is dead in the maritimes and we take it out on those cute baby seals(why not protest that guy stepping on ants in that other thread!??)