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Fishery Fact Sheet – Northwest Atlantic NAFO Grand Bank groundfish fisheries, 2013

The extension of fishery jurisdictions in the late-1970s created NAFO and the fishery was utilized mostly by non-Canadian countries fishing outside the 200-m limit Canadian. NAFO manages 10 groundfish stocks associated with the Grand Banks and one elasmobranch species. Read more here  08:58