There's no cod from Cape Cod in local markets

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There's no cod from Cape Cod in local markets
By LORELEI STEVENS, Cape Cod Times
5:57 PM EDT Aug 15, 2015

EASTHAM, Mass. —Step out of the hot, sunny day into the cool, fresh-smelling interior of Mac's Seafood in Eastham and you'll find a showcase full of glistening fish and shellfish nestled in a thick bed of ice chips.

Bluefish, summer flounder, cod and striped bass fillets, bluefin tuna, halibut and swordfish steaks, monkfish tails, bright pink slabs of salmon, shucked Atlantic sea scallops and whole squid, plus clams, oysters and mussels in their shells. There are plenty of choices.

But company co-owner Alex Hay doesn't hesitate to say that his customers won't find Cape Cod codfish in his fish market - or in any other fish market in the area.

Cod has slipped almost entirely out of reach for local fishermen over the last decade as stocks have contracted due to overfishing and environmental changes and quotas have been reduced to near nothing.