Sacred Cod on Discovery tonight

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by tlapinski

In one part they were saying they could go out and get a full season's quota in 15 minutes hauling a net, but later they said there were no cod left for them to catch. So which is it?

I was confused by that, too. One commercial fishermen said there were no cod left to get. Others said there were plenty of cod.

One scientist said that the western part of the Gulf Of Maine (presumably an easier steam for Gloucster boats) had cod, but much of the rest of the Gulf, was barren. So if that's all that's left in that one section, it needs to be protected and allowed to grow.

What I didn't hear, was anyone on the commercial side, admitting that they played any role at all in this. Plenty of blame for global warming. I wonder why global warming isn't harming the dogfish populations.