{"id":737075,"date":"2026-06-14T22:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T22:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/737075\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T22:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T22:58:12","slug":"healthy-northern-cod-stock-permits-larger-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/737075\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthy Northern Cod Stock Permits Larger Catch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cod-fish-dfo-recreational-food-fishery.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Healthy Northern Cod Stock Permits Larger Catch\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(DFO)<\/p>\n<p>The northern cod stock is in\u00a0 the healthy zone and able to support a 55 per cent increase in the total catch this year according to DFO but it\u2019s a different story for another stock off our shores.<\/p>\n<p>The moratorium continues for northern gulf cod,\u00a0which remains in the critical zone with no immediate improvement in sight.<\/p>\n<p>The maximum removal is 500 tonnes which accounts mainly for bycatch.<\/p>\n<p>St. John\u2019s East\u00a0 MP and Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson says that\u2019s tough on processors and harvesters on the west and south coasts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose inshore harvesters want to get on the water but we have to protect that stock. It is two different stories emerging though with the health of northern cod,\u201d said Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>Dwan Street, President of the FFAW, says they had hoped to see that stock rebuild by now but there are several factors at play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (DFO) The northern cod stock is in\u00a0 the healthy zone and able to support a 55 per&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-737075","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\/737075","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=737075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}