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Myth Bust: 皇冠体育app Sunday Times claims that there are 鈥榝ewer than 100 mature cod are left in the North Sea鈥�

皇冠体育app myth: An article in 皇冠体育app Sunday Times claimed that 鈥榝ewer than 100 mature cod are left in the North Sea鈥�. 皇冠体育app truth: This is completely鈥�

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Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Published
18 September 2012
This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

皇冠体育app myth: An article in 皇冠体育app Sunday Times claimed that 鈥榝ewer than 100 mature cod are left in the North Sea鈥�.

皇冠体育app truth: This is completely wrong, in fact we know there to be around 21 million mature cod in the north sea. Cod start to mature from a year old and are fully mature at age six.聽 皇冠体育appre are a small number of cod over the age of 12 years old聽which has always been the case in the North Sea even when fished at lower levels in the 1950s and 1960s. Cod older than 15 have聽rarely been recorded in the North Sea.

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Published 18 September 2012