Newfoundland fishermen get 'best news' on northern cod stocks in a generation

Newfoundland fishermen get 'best news' on northern cod stocks in a generation

Source: CTV News

11/3/2023

Newfoundland fishermen get 'best news' on northern cod stocks in a generation

It’s a technical, scientific change: the Limit Reference Point, a key part of the assessment of a fish stock’s health, has been revised.

But for Newfoundland and Labrador’s Fish, Food and Allied Workers (FFAW) union, the implications couldn’t be more clear.

Because of a change in their scientific method, officials at Fisheries and Oceans Canada now believe that Newfoundland’s northern cod stock has moved out of the critical zone for the first time in decades.

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