2015 Northern Cod Survey Reveals Major New Spawning Stocks - Supporting Full Scale NL Cod Recovery
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by John Sackton - June 2, 2015
For the past five years, the Province of Newfoundland and the Marine Institute have been funding special cod surveys using the Celtic Explorer, a research vessel from Ireland.
These surveys have documented the increasing populations of cod in the tradtional spawning areas in the Bonavista Corridor, where the remant population after the 1992 collapse was concentrated. According to Dr. George Rose, the rebuilding of the Northern Cod stock "parallels the North Sea cod story but of course the northern cod has much larger potential for stock growth...
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