The Fishery

History of the Cod Fishery

The Cod Fishery Today

Distribution and Abundance of Cod:   See animation of the abundance of cod from 1979-1999.

Information on northeast fisheries available through NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center website

and

NOAA Fisheries' National Marine Fisheries Service website

Photograph credit: John Collier. Hauling in a Cod Aboard a Portuguese Fishing Dory, Spring 1942. Photograph. Prints and Photographs Division, U.S. Office of War Information, LC- USW-3-2175-E (13).