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COMMERCE Subscriber Services Classified Ads Subscribe Advertise NEWS This Month Editorial Letters F/V Safety Past Issues ABOUT US Contact Us Latest Issue Subscribe History MORE CONTENT CFN Archives Links Each month exclusively in the PRINT edition of CFN Along the Coast Ask the Lobster Doc Bearin’s Classifieds Coming Events Editorial Enforcement Report FISH SAFE Fleet Additions Letters Lobster Market Report New Boats News Catch Quahog Market Report	Commercial Fisheries News  Volume 34 Number 9 May 2007 ‘Coddock’ turns up in dragger’s catch GLOUCESTER, MA – The sea yielded an oddity recently. The 42' Pigeon Cove Harbor groundfish dragger Terminator snagged what could be a most unusual cross between a cod and haddock – perhaps a “coddock?” – from the over-300'-deep muddy bottom east of Thachers Island off Rockport on March 15. This 21" fish had a haddock’s body, but its upper sides and back bear the cod’s traditional brownish background with spots, color, and pattern. There is no record of such a fish in the definitive guidebook “Fishes of the Gulf of Maine” by Bigelow and Schroeder. Lucky owner/operator Paul Theriault of Rockport and crewman Joe Roderick of Gloucester froze the specimen and forwarded it to the Smithsonian Institution for DNA testing to determine if it is, indeed, a hybrid. Back to story list	CFN Tell us what you think. Deadline Info! Click here... Secure Online Form Display Advertising Info the latest selected stories are here...
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