Last month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced emergency closures that will prohibit cod fishing in the Gulf of Maine until May 12, 2015. In the announcement, fishing ...

Local cod fishermen were expecting bad news ahead of Monday's announcement by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, although official word that a six-month ban will go into effect this ...

The City of Gloucester Fisheries Commission released the following statement regarding the May 1 Implementation of Interim Rule on Gulf of Maine Cod: On May 1 the NOAA Fisheries will implement a 22% ...

GLOUCESTER — On Monday, what was left of the fishing industry in Gloucester all but died. Again. Come Friday, there was a groundbreaking for a controversial new upscale hotel and conference center on ...

Fishermen have long since cast off aboard boats named for their sweethearts and chugged out to sea before sunrise. Clad in yellow and orange rubber suits, these seafarers drag giant nets across the ...

Of the two sacred emblems of Massachusetts — the bean and the cod — the cod gets all the glory but the bean is certainly more environmentally secure. For centuries fishermen from Gloucester have ...

An old wooden carving known as “the Sacred Cod” hangs in the Massachusetts State House. That figurine has stared down at lawmakers for more than two centuries as a reminder of how important cod ...

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 ...