GLOUCESTER, Mass. – 7 March 2012 – These days, Gloucester supermarkets rarely, if ever, sell fresh caught cod.
The price of fresh caught cod has doubled at the wholesale level, putting it out of bounds for many retailers.
The city's landmark Gloucester House has no cod on its menu.
Fine seafood restaurants in Boston are using pollack instead of cod for fish and chips.
Others now get their supply of the 200-year-old Commonwealth of Massachusetts' iconic state fish from Norway.
Such is the state of the cod in the state of the cod.
Read the story in the Gloucester Times