PORTLAND, Maine - Maine’s cod fishery, once one of the most lucrative in the Northeast, has declined to the point that it had its least valuable year in more than a half-century in 2018. In this Oct. 29, 2015, file photo, a cod to be auctioned sits on ice at the Portland Fish Exchange, in Portland, Maine. The state's cod fishery, once one of the most lucrative in the Northeast, has declined to the point that it had its least valuable year in more than a half century in 2018. The few remaining U.S. cod fishermen harvest the fish in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank off of New England. Massachusetts has long been the biggest cod producing state in the country, and its fishery has suffered the most.

Source: thestar March 17, 2019 14:26 UTC