One of the oldest fishing industries in the U.S. sank to a new low in catch last year, signaling that efforts to rebuild the fishery still have a long way to go.New England fishermen have caught ...
NEWBURYPORT, Mass. — New England fishermen are struggling to make ends meet in the wake of the cod fishery’s catastrophic crash. Consider Captain Jim Ford. He once netted as much as $15,000 a day ...
After a long yet relaxing day of catching cod and tracking mackerel, you reel in the latest catch only to see that one gilled monstrosity has fanged teeth and three heads. It’s an otherwise normal ...
Fishermen have hit out at a “zero catch” recommendation for cod stocks for part of the North Sea, warning that implementing such a policy would be “fleet-ending madness”. The sector insisted that ...
The New England Fishery Management Council voted Wednesday night to cut the catch limit on Gulf of Maine cod by 77 percent – although most members reportedly agreed the move was tantamount to shutting ...
European fisheries ministers are about to adopt new measures that may put the recovery of the Baltic Sea cod stocks at risk. The proposal now on the table will reduce the minimum legal size of caught ...
For the past decade the North Sea cod fishery has been shrinking--and everybody knew, or should have known, that a disaster was coming. Fishermen knew it was getting harder and harder to find cod; ...
PORTLAND, Maine — One of the oldest fishing industries in the U.S. sank to a new low in catch last year, signaling that efforts to rebuild the fishery still have a long way to go. New England ...