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 ...

High-sided and tippy, the dories only stabilized when they had 400 to 500 pounds of fish heaped in the bottom.

ROCKPORT, Maine (AP) — The cod isn’t so sacred in New England anymore. The fish-and-chips staple was once a critical piece of New England’s fishing industry, but catch is plummeting to all-time lows ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Maine — Federal ocean regulators say a new fishing plan has a chance to rebuild the New England cod stock, which is a goal even many commercial fishermen have long regarded as far fetched.

Alongside the cuts to cod, Norway, E.U., and U.K. officials also agreed to a 20 percent cut to the quota of North Sea herring ...

Cod stocks in the North East Atlantic, already at risk from over-fishing are also facing a very real threat from climate change. The current over-fishing by UK and European fleets has led to the ...

BOSTON – A new look at the health of one of New England's most storied fish stocks is troubling the industry, with some saying the findings have got to be wrong. Just three years ago, a federal study ...

What better way to start our 61st season of Land & Sea than with a show all about the icon of the Newfoundland and Labrador fishery — the northern cod. A profile of the cod fishery in southern ...