Reporting from Chatham, Mass. — There aren’t enough cod left on Cape Cod. That soon becomes evident to the tourists crowding an observation deck to watch fishermen unload their boats in this ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Cod is the poster fish for how excessive catches can lead to devastating crashes in fisheries. But now it is making a comeback in two fisheries that some feared were gone forever: the North Sea and ...