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Tagging in Newfoundland showing cod, halibut activity
Atlantic halibut catches provided a landed value of $5.6 million to the Newfoundland and Labrador fishery in 2013, with over 40 per cent caught off the Island’s west coast. The stock estimates for that area, as with other parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, face regular dispute, with some fishermen saying there are more fish to catch. Harvesters argue current bottom-trawl surveys do not provide a true assessment at the end of the day. Read the rest here 21:22
WhIther oh where do gray seals go?
“We don’t know much about what they do when they’re off the beach,” said Gordon Waring, who heads the seal program at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center in Woods Hole. “Do they stay in Massachusetts waters? How far offshore do they go? Do they go to Georges Bank or are those Canadian seals? They are highly mobile.” continued@wickedlocalbrewster
