tonight Discovery is

[Pennsy Guy]

airing the first of a series "Sacred Cod"...deals with the cod fish situation in our northern waters from what I see from the promos. Airs @ 9 PM...could be worthwhile watching..."60 minutes" or "20-20" did a piece on the cod back in the late '70's...wasn't good then, guess not now either...

[Jberg]

Thank you for the reminder but did anyone just catch them filleting dogfish in the processing plant?

[BugEye Chris]

Yes I saw that also

[Jigman13]

Arthur treachers fish n chips

[SNAPS]

Sad.

[bulletbob]

I dunno, they kept pushing the "climate change" mantra as a big factor...It happened to Newfoundland even worse than New England, and I doubt they disappeared there because of warm water.
The problem is simple to me and I am no marine biologist..
You catch, kill and eat too many Cod for too many years. Unrelenting pressure.
Now, nature abhors a vacuum, so the Dogfish population explodes far beyond what it should be.. So now you have far fewer and much smaller cod, producing far less offspring, and those few offspring that are hatched are quickly eaten by the Dogfish hordes.. We are further south in NJ and have had a little increase in Cod over the past few years here, at least from what I can see in my personal observation, and from fishing reports right here.. I have seen smaller Cod taken on several Tog trips in late fall, on crabs, in only 60-70 FOW. Years ago, that was simply something I had never witnessed.
Personally, I don't buy the global warming theory.
The water is plenty cool enough for Cod in New England.

People just need to learn that you cannot take take take for hundreds of years and still have unlimited stocks of fish forever.. Sooner or later the population collapses.. In the story they related how Canada totally stopped Cod fishing off Newfoundland.. It still took 20 + year for the stocks to begin to recover. I hope it doesn't come to that in the states.

The population in the US has tripled in the past 100 years. lots of people like to eat Cod, and the Cod simply could not stand the pressure.. Its simple math.... bob

[bowhunter]

Show sucked. 90 minutes could have been 30. Watching bands in bars, guy wrapping Christmas gifts, guys sobbing, not much info given.

[Capt. Lou]

The best info in that show was some are now commercially netting dogs ! If a market for them is located one of the most vicious predators on cod grounds if the dam dogfish !
In my non scientific opinion, this over population of dogfish is decimating many species of game fish , they're virtually everywhere &'seem to eat most everything .
If they are targeted again commercially it can only help many of our fisheries !

[Pennsy Guy]

As I've said a couple of times on other threads, MANY, MANY years ago one of the networks did a segment on the decimation and TOTAL collapse of the commercial cod fish fishery in new England. They caught them all and the Brits kept coming over for dog fish for their fish 'n chips after the cod were gone--not knocking them, it was documented on that show...unfortunately, I don't remember the year(Johnny Carson still was king of late nite) or the show(20-20 or 60 minutes)...looks like it'll happen again...catch 'em all up boys...dog fish suck, they too, expel their urine through their meat/skin but let's let the Brits have 'em all...