Cod Shutdown?

[Snapprhead27]

Saw this posted on a Facebook group I'm in. Had to screenshot it off the laptop.

 

[Roccus7]

Saw it too, welcome to my nightmare.

 

[captmike28]

Saw this posted on a Facebook group I'm in. Had to screenshot it off the laptop.


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While I have not made the run in many years, it is sad to think that summer Cod fishing at Coxes Ledge is no longer an option. I really miss that fishery.

 

[poorrichard]

Is commecial closed too?

 

[george]

@poorrichard Yes it's open and I know that the coms were bitching about how bad the regs are.

 

[Roccus7]

Only took over 30 years, but Canada reopening Norther Cod!!

Canadian regulators have doubled the total allowable catch (TAC) in the nation’s recently reopened Northern cod fishery, citing new evidence that the stock is more abundant than previously thought.

In response to plummeting Northern cod stocks in the 1990s, the Canadian government imposed a moratorium on the fishery that lasted more than 30 years. In 2024, officials reopened the fishery with a TAC of 18,000 metric tons (MT), declaring the population had recovered enough to support commercial fishing.

Now, the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) said that Northern cod has a newly estimated biomass of 524,000 metric tons – 60 percent higher than previous estimates.

In turn, the government has more than doubled the total allowable catch for 2025 to 38,000 MT.

The announcement has been met with mixed reactions. While Canadian officials have celebrated the return of commercial cod fishing, some conservationists argue the decision is premature.

“This wasn’t a science-based decision – it was a political choice made under pressure, not precaution. Canada has already paid the price for overfishing this fragile stock, and now DFO is at risk of repeating the mistake: ignoring science, exceeding stakeholder advice, and opening the door to increased fishing while cod remains weak and projected to decline,” Oceana Canada fisheries scientist Rebecca Schijns said in a statement.

 

[OVERBORED]

So Canadians figured out their biomass estimates were off by 60% and adjusted accordingly yet our brilliant scientists readily admit the sea bass biomass is higher than estimated yet they reduce the allowable catch.

That make any sense to anyone??