Can New England's cod fishing industry survive?
Scientists and fishers agree that cod fishery is at a crisis point – but they disagree on what’s causing itIt’s said cod were once so plentiful in New England they would throw themselves into a boat. It’s said you could walk across their backs to shore.Gloucester, Massachusetts, grew up around cod. The waterfront teemed with boats and fishermen, heaps of fish thrashing in wire baskets. Boats were inherited from fathers and shipyards boasted of operating since 1684. As lat
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