# Quote — Mark Kurlansky, Cod

> But while the new, offshore all-Canadian fishery was prospering, the inshore fisherman found their catch dropping off. They suspected the reason was that the offshore draggers were taking so many cod that the fish did not have a chance to migrate in the shore to spawn. The inshore fishermen complained to the regulatory agency, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, but the government had invested in offshore fishing, not inshore, and its political priority was to make its investment a success story.

- Author: [Mark Kurlansky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-kurlansky.md)
- Book: [Cod](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-kurlansky/cod.md)
- Page: 182
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