In 40 years of commercial haddock and cod fishing, my husband had only seen one fish that looked like this. He also saw one that looked like a cross between a cod and a pollack.

The year 1968 is when the cod catch peaked, at about 800,000 metric tons, which is just an egregious amount of fish. And cod stocks began to decline after that.

Once they learned how to fish, the industry boomed, allowing early Cape Cod residents to trade cod for goods overseas and build big houses, which they sometimes decorated with images of the fish ...

But as cod in the UK increasingly move north to find cooler water, scientists are concerned that local “accents” – and noise pollution – may hamper future breeding. British cod fish are ...