The New England Fishery Management Council will host three public workshops, including one in Rhode Island, to identify challenges and discuss ideas for how to address Atlantic cod management, ...

OTTAWA >> Canada said on Wednesday it would allow some commercial fishing of cod to restart off its northeastern Atlantic coast, more than 30 years after it was shut down to protect plummeting stocks.

For generations, cod fishing was a way of life in Newfoundland and Labrador, the easternmost province in Canada. But in 1992, after cod stocks in the north Atlantic plummeted, the federal government ...