ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — About a dozen fishers interrupted a news conference with the country’s environment ministers in St. John’s on Wednesday to demand the federal government reinstate a 32-year moratorium on commercial cod fishing in the province.

Protesters rang a siren on a bullhorn and carried signs saying “Save our cod” and “Stop offshore draggers” as fisher Glen Winslow took over the podium to deliver his message.