Cod: The Fish that Made New England
Nothing tells a story like the eyewitnesses who were there. Old-timers in New England’s commercial cod fishery don’t want us to forget how we got where we are today. Overfishing—catching fish faster than they can reproduce—is still occurring on 10 of our dinner-time favorites like Atlantic cod. These “old salts” remember how different the fishing was just a few decades ago. In the words of one of them, “it was the most fantastic fishery I ever saw.”
