WMUR

Atlantic cod catch off New England coast reaches new low

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 ...
E&E

Technology buoys fishermen devastated by cod’s collapse

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 ...
The Daily News of Newburyport

Cod could choke catch of other fish

It’s been a long road to setting final groundfish catch limits for the next three years in the Northeast Multispecies groundfishery and the journey isn’t quite over yet. The New England Fishery ...
The Business Journals

Cod fishery's catch limit cut by 77%, 'the game is over'

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 ...
Panda

New catch of young cod threatens the Baltic stocks

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 ...
Boston Herald

Atlantic cod catch reaches new low

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 ...