Dogfish, Photo:Matthew Lawrence, NOAA Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary

CapeCodOnline: If the English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold had ventured into Cape waters in 2012 instead of 1602, he might have come up with a different name for our peninsula. Something like Cape Skate or Cape Dog.

Skate, NOAA/MBARI

Nowadays, it’s not cod that sustains many local fishermen but the small sharks known as dogfish, or winter skates, large-winged creatures listed in the same family as sharks that glide along the bottom in shallow waters eating worms, amphipods and fish.

That’s a good thing, because cod has not responded well to nearly 20 years of tough fishing regulations.

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