article_snippet.sent: North Sea cod stocks are bouncing back after being heavily overfished for decades and could even be sustainable in five years, Research  has found.
article_snippet.sent: North Sea cod stocks are on the rise after being heavily overfished and could be sustainable in five years .
article_snippet.sent: The exact cod stock figures remain unknown due to a severe lack of scientific data on the number of fish caught every year, according to the Guardian.
article_snippet.sent: Trawling in the North Sea saw catches grow each year until the 1980s, with figures for cod peaking at 300,000 tonnes in the 1970s.
article_snippet.sent: A report in 2012 suggested that there were only 100 adult cod, which become more fertile as they age, left in the North Sea.
article_snippet.sent: Atlantic cod is listed by OSPAR (The Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic) as a threatened and declining species and by International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as vulnerable in the Greater North Sea and Celtic Sea. '
highlights_snippet.sent: North Sea cod populations are healthy in hundreds of fisheries analysed .
  