In the ocean off of Massachusetts, an unlikely alliance of scientists and fishermen is on a quest. They're looking for mating codfish. The goal is not only to revive a depleted fish population but to ...

Reporting from Chatham, Mass. — There aren’t enough cod left on Cape Cod. That soon becomes evident to the tourists crowding an observation deck to watch fishermen unload their boats in this ...

Kiss that New England cod goodbye. At least for now. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has closed off most of the waters off the Northeast coast to cod fishing for the next ...

Bill boars the Winner III in Rockport, for some ocean cod and haddock drift fishing. The Ocean off Rockport, Massachusetts is the setting for some deep water canyon fishing for cod and haddock. Drift ...

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 ...

And this is good old Boston, The home of the bean and the cod. Where the Lowells talk only to Cabots, And the Cabots talk only to God. BOSTON — The home of the bean and the cod is running out of the ...

In Rhode Island and in Massachusetts waters south of Cape Cod, cod is king in January. The cod bite off Rhode Island has been good this season with fish at Cox Ledge and even closer in the East ...

The New England Fishery Management Council will host three public workshops, including one in Rhode Island, to identify challenges and discuss ideas for how to address Atlantic cod management, ...

An army marches on its stomach, the saying goes, but so too sails a navy. And when Tudor England was starting to ramp up its fleet, on its way to becoming a global naval power, its navy drew its food ...

Atlantic cod and other fish species collected during one of the annual scientific surveys of the Scotian Shelf. Courtesy: Kenneth Frank. Back in the early 1900s British scientist Walter Garstang and ...