Fishing boats in the harbour in Lofoten, Norway

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The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), which provides advice on the management of fish stocks, has evaluated the North-East Arctic cod around Lofoten as being in a good and healthy condition, allowing catch quotas to be increased 10% in 2010 compared to 2009. The same, however, cannot be said for the other 13 cod stocks in the north-east Atlantic.