Massachusetts to Conduct First Summer Season Cod Stock Survey in Gulf of Maine
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Gloucester Daily Times] by Sean Horgan - July 18, 2016
The coastline had melted into a gray slurry, its shapes barely visible through intermittent rain and mist, when the Miss Emily made her first of two scheduled tows last week about seven miles off this South Shore port.
Despite the weather, the waters remained sedate as the 55-foot gillnetter, skippered by owner Capt. Kevin Norton, steamed at about three knots for 30 minutes, its net set at 36 fathoms, or about 216 feet.
Its target? What else? The iconic, oft-debated and oft-elusive cod...
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