Southern N.S. Groundfish Stocks Healthy, Except Cod and Cusk

While the lobster fishery is king, the groundfish fishery in southwestern Nova Scotia is nothing to sneeze at. This fishery is worth more than $55 million in landed value for 2016/17 for fishing areas 4VXW and Georges Bank and has solid stock statuses for primary target species such as halibut, haddock, silver hake, winter flounder and redfish. “Halibut is the one that’s just going up and up and up,” said federal fisheries survey biologist Donald Clark in an interview. “I ...