New cod war of words : ‘ cod is God ’ versus ‘ sod the cod ’ - two opposed discourses on the North 1 Sea Cod
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1/12 1 New cod war of words: ‘cod is God’ versus ‘sod the cod’ two opposed discourses on the North 1 Sea Cod Recovery Programme 2 3 Tim Gray (a), Jenny Hatchard (b), Tim Daw (c) and Selina Stead (d) 4 5 (a) School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, Newcastle, NE1 7RU 6 (b) JH Fishery Management Services, PO Box 17336, Edinburgh, EH12 1BZ 7 (c) School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ 8 (d) School of Marine Sciences and Technology, Newcastle University, Newcastle, NE1 7RU 9 10 Corresponding Author: Emeritus Professor Tim Gray 11 Correspondence Address: 44 Painshawfield Road, Stocksfield, Northumberland, NE43 7QY 12 Tel: 0044 1661 843325; Fax: 0044 191 222 5069; Email: [email protected] 13 14 Abstract 15 16 New insights into the North Sea Cod Recovery Programme (CRP), initiated in 2003 by the European 17 Commission to reverse the long-term decline in cod stocks, are presented using discourse analysis. The 18 main conservation measures taken under the CRP have been to reduce catch limits drastically and to 19 increase control over vessels’ fishing activities. There has been considerable controversy over the 20 programme from its inception, with protagonists broadly divided into two discourses: (1) ‘cod is god’ – 21 in which cod has assumed the status of the defining test of the European Union’s (EU) resolve to 22 manage fish stocks sustainably in EU waters; and (2) ‘sod the cod’ – in which cod is regarded as one of 23 a number of target commercial fish species, with no special status. Drawing on Frank Fischer’s 24 distinction between hegemonic and challenging discourses, we analyse the conflict between them at 25 three levels: empirical; conceptual; and political. We consider moves to reconcile the two discourses in 26 a policy consensus on a revised CRP, which suggest that the challenging discourse (sod-the-cod) has 27 had some success in modifying the impact of the hegemonic discourse (cod-is-god). 28 29
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