According to the Northeast Science Center more haddock were born on Georges Bank last year then any time in the last four decades.
A research vessel caught on average nearly 30 times the usual number of juvenile haddock. If most survive natural threats and fishing nets to lay eggs haddock stocks could reach the population goal for the species in 2007 seven years ahead of a schedule that regulators had set.
Georges Bank haddock stocks reached their lowest recorded levels in 1991 but rebounded to become one of the most healthy groundfish species.
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