Surveys of Atlantic cod show that stocks are improving but the fishery is unlikely to return to where it was in the 1980s because the market has changed, Canada's CBC reported

Three fishing areas off the Newfoundland coast, 2J, 3K and 3L, have seen a joint biomass of 538,000 metric tons for this year, the highest since 1992 when commercial fishing was suspended, according to regulators at Fisheries and Oceans Canada [...]