Research Document - 2001/105
Assessment of the Status of 4Vn Cod (May to October): 2000
By R.K. Mohn, D. Beanlands, G.A.P. Black and T. Lambert
Abstract
The 4Vn (May - Oct.) cod fishery has been closed since September 1993. Nevertheless, the stock shows little sign of recovery, largely due to lack of recruitment. About 50 tonnes of cod were taken commercially as Sentinel activity and bycatch in redfish, flatfish and halibut fisheries in both 2000 and 2001 (to date Oct 1). The stock is monitored by annual DFO groundfish trawl surveys in July and since 1991, an inshore survey. In addition, a Sentinel Survey employing commercial longliners was inaugurated in September 1994, and has since been conducting annual surveys in July and September. All these surveys give a similar picture of the stock status. Until there is substantial recruitment, and it survives to reproductive age, there are no prospects for a reopening of this fishery.
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