Part of Bering Sea Pacific Cod Fishery Could Move Toward Quota System

February 18, 2019 Aaron Bolton, KBBI

About a year after federal regulators dramatically cut the Pacific Cod quota in the Gulf of Alaska, some fishermen in the Bering Sea say there are too many boats fishing for the declining species.

Cod Recovery Not Impossible, But Still Far Off: DFO

It’s not impossible for cod stocks to return to pre-moratorium levels, according to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), but a number of factors remain in the way.

Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence Cod Could be Extinct by Mid-Century: Report

January 8, 2019 Paul Withers · CBC News

The paper, published in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, says the death rate now stands at 50 per cent for adult Gulf cod five years and older.