<p>The commercial cod fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador was once the<br>most successful in the world. When it collapsed in 1992 -- causing<br>the largest single-day layoff in Canadian history and irrevocable<br>ecological damage -- fishermen, scholars, and scientists pointed<br>to failures in management such as uncontrolled harvesting and not<br>taking fishermen's concerns into account as likely culprits.</p><br><br><p>Examining the history of commercial cod fisheries in Newfoundland<br>and Labrador from the mid-nineteenth century to the aftermath of the<br>cod moratorium, <i>Managed Annihilation</i> makes the case that the<br>idea of natural resource management was itself the problem. The<br>collapse occurred when the fisheries were ostensibly managed by the<br>state, and the fishery has still not recovered nearly twenty years<br>later. Although the collapse of northern cod raised doubts among<br>policy-makers about their ability to understand, predict, and control<br>nature, their ultimate goal of control through management has not<br>wavered -- it has simply been transferred from wild fish to<br>fishermen and domesticated cod.</p>