A Century Of New England Fisheries:

Advances in Equipment & Technology/Decline of the Fish

Low-Tech Fishing in the 1880's

Underrunning cod gill-nets in Ipswich Bay, Massachusetts. Drawing by H. W. Elliott and Capt. J. W. Collins.
Credit: NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service

Old style Grand Bank cod schooner; crew at rails hand-line fishing. Drawing by H. W. Elliott and Capt. J. W. Collins.

Dressing cod on deck of fishing schooner. Drawing by H. W. Elliott and Capt. J. W. Collins.
Credit: NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service

Modern Fishing in the 1990's

Histories of the collapse of New England fisheries can be found on these websites:
http://omega.cc.umb.edu/~conne/bob/cod.html and http://www.clf.org/advocacy/index1.htm

The Codfish. Gadus morrhua, L.

The Haddock. Melanogrammus aeglefinus (L.)

The American Plaice or Turbot-Flounder. Paralichthys dentatus, (L.)

The Flatfish, or Winter Flounder. Pseudopleuronectes americanus, (Walb.)