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Next month’s Fishing News International cover story (May 2013) looks at the saga of the actual state of the biomass of the cod stock and of the unfounded rumors of the demise of this popular species of fish.

Such a good job was done by green groups in creating mass hysteria among consumers in recent years that if one were to ask anyone in the street what fish they should stop eating, they would invariably all say cod.

Housewives doing their weekly shopping, particularly in the United Kingdom, have been 'guilted' into believing they are practically encouraging unsustainable fishing and are killing the last cod in the sea if they buy cod-based products.

However,