Home, and its centuries-deep heritage, was worth fighting for.įogo Island found international fame when the luxury hotel Fogo Island Inn opened in 2013. “We were told, ‘burn your boats, sink or swim’,” local newspaper editor Carol Penton later said in an interview. Fogo Islanders were targeted for resettlement, but they resisted. As populations declined, the Newfoundland government began to coerce and even force people to leave their small, remote communities. Their livelihoods lost, many islanders left Tilting and Fogo to find work elsewhere. In the mid-1960s, however, overfishing by large, powerful ships caused the inshore fishery to collapse, and by 1992, the once-plentiful stocks had come so close to extinction that the federal government declared a moratorium on fishing the North Atlantic cod (today, quotas remain in effect).
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