HALIFAX — There is growing hope that the once decimated northern cod stock is making a slow, but steady comeback, according to a new study that found the iconic species is growing in size and number off Newfoundland.
George Rose, the report's co-author, said acoustic surveys last spring indicated that the fish were getting bigger and more plentiful after 23 years of a government-imposed moratorium and halting growth.
Rose, who has studied the stock for 30 years, says the findings could provide a valuable lesson for fisheries managers who once wrote off the cod's recovery after it was almost completely wiped out in the early 1990s.
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