The line passes over her open hand as the steel weight sinks the hook. Curled around the hook, pierced eye to tailfin, is capelin, a small oily foraging fish that’s the meal of choice for seabirds ...

Dr Kwi Young Han holds a cod. Once a giant, today a full-grown specimen can be held in two hands. The 'shrinking' of the cod, as well as the decline in its population, is due to decades of intensive ...

Captain Alex Saunders has more experience fishing northern cod than most fishermen. At 81 years old, the fishing captain has fished for cod off the Labrador coast for six decades. This year, he says, ...

Cod has played a central role in the cultural history and economic development of New England fishing communities for more than 400 years. The bottom-dwelling fish was once so plentiful in colonial ...