While the North Atlantic cod stocks are showing some signs of health, two fish plant executives say fishermen in the province have a long way to modernize since the moratorium announced in 1992. "We are thinking about going back to the cod fishery that existed in the 1980s, and the market doesn't want that cod fishery," John Risley, a director of Clearwater Seafoods, told the St. John's Morning Show. Smaller, but betterThe Icewater Seafoods plant operates more than six months of the year, and could be going longer if not for the limited supply of raw material. "That's basically the fishery of the future, it's focused on producing a premium quality," Wareham told CBC Radio's St. John's Morning Show. He says he is 100 per cent invested in the future of the cod fishery.

Source: CBC News September 18, 2016 08:26 UTC