{"id":733744,"date":"2026-06-13T07:36:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T07:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/733744\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T07:36:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T07:36:32","slug":"dfo-says-northern-cod-in-healthy-zone-quotas-increased-in-2j-3kl-by-55-per-cent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/733744\/","title":{"rendered":"DFO says Northern Cod in \u2018Healthy Zone,\u2019 Quotas Increased in 2J-3KL by 55 Per Cent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The main cod stock off Newfoundland and Labrador is in the healthy zone, and allocations for all harvesters have increased by about 55 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>DFO released the management plan for northern cod, northern Gulf cod, and capelin this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Total Allowable Catch in 2J-3KL \u2013 from southern Labrador to the southern Avalon \u2013 is just shy of 60,000 metric tonnes, well above last year\u2019s limit of 38,000.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/nafo-division-areas-dfo.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-297475\" class=\"size-full wp-image-297475\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/nafo-division-areas-dfo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"429\" height=\"581\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-297475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NAFO division areas (DFO)<\/p>\n<p>Regional Manager, Resource Management with DFO, Robert Fagan says the inshore fleet will get 70 per cent of the TAC \u2013 41,000 tonnes this year, up from 30,000 last year.<\/p>\n<p>He says the offshore and mid-shore fleet gets 20 per cent or 12,000 tonnes, up from 4,000, while the Indigenous and special allocations account for 10 per cent or 6,000, up from 4,000.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/st-johns-east-mp-federal-fisheries-minister-joanne-thompson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-293530\" class=\"size-full wp-image-293530\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/st-johns-east-mp-federal-fisheries-minister-joanne-thompson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-293530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MP Joanne Thompson (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>MP calls Inshore sector \u2018backbone of fishery\u2019<\/p>\n<p>St. John\u2019s East MP and Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson says the inshore sector is still the backbone of the fishery. She notes that the amount of cod being exported out of Newfoundland and Labrador is on the rise, the price is up by about 30 per cent, and she would like to see a year-round commercial fishery.<\/p>\n<p>It was only a few short years ago that the TAC was about a quarter of what it will be this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the increase in the TAC, which the inshore will see this summer, that\u2019d going to result in increased economic activity on the floor of processing plants, so it will be a very busy time,\u201d says the minister.<\/p>\n<p>The moratorium remains on the northern Gulf stock, and the Total Allowable Catch for capelin is the same as last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ffaw-president-dwan-street-february-2025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-261790\" class=\"size-full wp-image-261790\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ffaw-president-dwan-street-february-2025.jpg\" alt=\"FFAW President Dwan Street\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-261790\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FFAW President Dwan Street<\/p>\n<p>FFAW pleased<\/p>\n<p>FFAW President Dwan Street is pleased with the 55 per cent increase in the TAC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to mean a lot to our members both in the inshore and in processing plants,\u201d says Street. \u201cIt also maintains a 12 per cent harvest rate so it is a very sustainable increase.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The main cod stock off Newfoundland and Labrador is in the healthy zone, and allocations for all harvesters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-733744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}