Wayne Chaulk's song Baxter's Store describes a place and time deep in the heart of anyone who grew up in outport Newfoundland.

The Variety Foods fish plant in Harbour Main is not very big, but it is very busy. As Todd O'Brien writes, the company traces its history in the fishing fishing industry back through four generations.

The once mighty northern cod stocks' growth is stalled according to DFO science. Ecosystem conditions including a lack of food are contributing factors. Fish harvesters say in the bigger picture though, the numbers are moving in the right direction.

A new way of estimating the size of the stock indicates the area known as 3PS is worse than previously thought, and the numbers have dipped to a critical level.

The Family-owned Arnold's Cove company is spending $10 million on the latest cod-processing technology and claims to be the only processor in North America dedicated full-time to Atlantic cod production.

The FFAW says there is a "co-ordinated effort" by several big companies, but the Association of Seafood Producers says that is categorically false.

Perched over a crevice next to a coastal trail on the western tip of Norwaysits a giant, plastic crab and it's there partly thanks to Newfoundland.