Atlantic Cod Fishing Rods

The Atlantic Cod more than any other fish is a symbol of the New England fisheries.

“Although many explorers and fishermen had sailed our waters in the 1500s, Bartholemew Gosnold is credited with the “European discovery” of New England decades later. He named this great coast; “Cape Cod” and made note in his logbooks about the plentiful “codfyshes” which “pestered” his ship.”