Demersal seining is an important fishing method to harvest cod (Gadus morhua) in Norwegian fisheries.
As Frank Mirarchi, a 69-year-old fisherman who has been harvesting cod and flounder in New England for nearly half a century, put it, "We're gonna lose a bunch of boats".
"I'll be done painting in here soon," says Mirarchi, who has been harvesting cod, flounder and other quarry from the Gulf of Maine and, further out, from the lucrative shallows of Georges Bank for the better part of five decades.
In order to find a place for themselves, cod-farming entrepreneurs must find a way to harvest fresh cod year-round.
How does a manager tell the difference between, for example, an illegally harvested Northeast Arctic cod and a perfectly legal Eastern Baltic cod?
But the Alaska senator, Ted Stevens, a Republican who is chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, was holding out for legislation that would ease restrictions on how much pollock and cod could be harvested from Alaskan waters by commercial fishermen.
Until 1995, when new rules governing the catch were implemented, there were only two 24- or 48-hour periods during the entire year when black cod could be harvested, creating a short period when it was available fresh.
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Fishery management officials meeting here on Wednesday voted to impose drastic new cuts to the commercial harvest of cod along the Atlantic coast, arguing that the only way to save the centuries-old cod fishing industry was to sharply limit it.
Fishermen harvest Pacific Cod with pots, a method with zero by-catch that does no harm to the sea floor.
