A gorgeous example of a Cornish cod, no tagged cod caught in ICES Area VII has ever been caught outside of these waters, suggesting that the stock is native to these waters...
however, a look at the TAC for Area VII cod taken from the current data table shows just how unfairly UK fishermen feel the system is - with the base data taken from a time (the late 1970s) when very few Cornish boats actually fished for cod the fleet now has around 10% of the remaining quota. Worse still, the stocks of cod have increased steadily over the years raising the levels of unwanted over-quota fish at certain times of the year.