Waters off Yorkshire coast are teeming with cod, fishermen claim

A FISHing industry leader says cod is expanding “at a rate of knots” and far higher quotas could now be realistically set.

Arnold Locker, the owner of Lockers Trawlers in Whitby and president of the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations, was speaking after protracted negotiations finally set this year’s North Sea cod quota up five per cent.

Mr Locker, whose trawlers work out of Peterhead and Denmark, said they couldn’t fish the waters off the Yorkshire coast, which were “teeming with cod” because they would exhaust their quota in three weeks.