Welcoming the announcement by the Marine Stewardship Council of the world’s first certified sustainable cod fishery in the North Pacific, WWF is urging the EU to improve European fisheries management.

With the closure of Newfoundland and Labrador’s recreational food fishery on Labour Day, a fisheries officer with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) says this year's expansion made for a ...

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, April 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mi'kma'ki, traditional, unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq People -- Today, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) met with representatives from the ...

The joint Russian-Norwegian Fisheries Commission is planning to increase the permissible catch of cod in the Barents Sea to a ...

Canada has lifted a three-decade moratorium on commercial cod fishing, but there are signs Atlantic stocks have not fully recovered, raising questions about the government's rosy outlook for the ...

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NOAA Fisheries scientist Ben Laurel explains how raising Pacific cod in a laboratory setting offers clues on how climate change is impacting this species. Living in a lakeside cabin in Minnesota as a ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s cod fishery, once one of the most lucrative in the Northeast, has declined to the point that it had its least valuable year in more than a half-century in 2018. The ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. The New England Fishery Management Council voted Wednesday ...

PORTLAND, Maine -- One of the most historic fisheries in the country hit an all-time low last year as cod fishermen continued to struggle with choking quotas and low abundance of the fish. Maine's cod ...