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The spawning stock of North-East Arctic cod was more than a million tons following World War II, but declined to a historic minimum of 118,000 tons in 1987. The North-East Arctic cod catch reached a historic maximum of 1,343,000 tons in 1956, and bottomed out at 212,000 tons in 1990.
Spawning biomass had decreased by at least 75% in all stocks, by 90% in three of the six stocks, and by 99% in the case of "northern" cod, previously the largest cod fishery in the world. [14] The previous increases in catches were wrongly thought to be due to "the stock growing" but were caused by new technologies such as trawlers.
The Atlantic cod (pl.: cod; Gadus morhua) is a fish of the family Gadidae, widely consumed by humans. It is also commercially known as cod or codling. [3] [n 1]In the western Atlantic Ocean, cod has a distribution north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and around both coasts of Greenland and the Labrador Sea; in the eastern Atlantic, it is found from the Bay of Biscay north to the Arctic ...
For many of these stocks, the fishing moratorium started more than a decade ago, however two stocks (redfish and cod) were reopened to fishing after decade-long moratoria. NAFO co-manages the pelagic redfish in Subarea 2 and Div. 1F-3K (off Greenland) with its sister organization, NEAFC.
The value of aquaculture products grew from $45 million in 1974 to about $866 million (393,400 tonnes) in 2003. [15] Aquaculture, in the United States, includes the farming of hatchery fish and shellfish which are grown to market size in ponds, tanks, cages, or raceways , and released into the wild.
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In 2017, Maine lobster was the single most valuable commercial fish species in the United States, and was estimated to be worth $637 million. [8] In the Mid Atlantic Bight section of the NEUS continental shelf, the state of Virginia had the third highest volume of landed fish of any state in the year 2017, superseded only by the states of ...