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Recreational food fishery gearing up to start Friday

Get your boats and life jackets ready, because it's food fishery time in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Allison Mouland was quite excited when she pulled in this three-foot long cod fish while visiting her hometown of Port de Grave in 2015. (Submitted by Allison Mouland)

Get your boats and life jackets ready, because it's food fishery time in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Friday marks the start of the extended recreational cod fishery in the province.

The following is the schedule for the summer season, according to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

  • Friday, July 1 - Sunday, July 3
  • Saturday, July 9 - Sunday, July 10
  • Saturday, July 16 - Sunday, August 7
  • Saturday,  Aug. 13 - Sunday, Aug. 14
  • Saturday,  Aug.  20 - Sunday, Aug. 21
  • Saturday,  Aug.  27 - Sunday, Aug. 28
  • Saturday, Sept. 3 - Monday, Sept. 5

Fall season:

  • Saturday, Sept. 24 - Sunday, Oct. 02
Fisherman Harry Lee fillets cod caught on the first day of the 2012 food fishery. (CBC)

There are more chances this year to get your feed of fish, with the federal government adding 14 extra days to the food fishery schedule.

In May, DFO released a report which indicated that the cod stocks were returning.

The stock in the 2J, 3K and 3L regions has increased to an estimated 538,000 tonnes of fish — the highest since 1992, when an economically devastating moratorium on cod was introduced in response to collapsing stocks.

The moratorium is considered to be the largest single industrial layoff in Canadian history. 

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