Al Cottone unloaded 1,184 pounds of cod, along with yellow tail flounder.

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Al Cottone unloaded 1,184 pounds of cod, along with yellow tail flounder in Gloucester.

Cod was unloaded from a boat and weighed at the Gloucester fish pier.

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The fish were weighed at the Gloucester fish pier after they were unloaded.

A cod caught on fisherman Al Cottone?s boat.

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A cod caught on fisherman Al Cottone?s boat.

Cod were weighed and sorted on the Gloucester fish pier.

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Cod were weighed and sorted.

Fresh-caught cod on Al Cottone?s boat.

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Fresh-caught cod on Al Cottone?s boat.

Joseph Orlando, a fisherman for 40 years in Gloucester, helped repair a friend?s trawler.

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Joseph Orlando, a fisherman for 40 years in Gloucester, helped repair the trawler that belongs to his friend, Russell Sherman.

Cod fishermen face uncertain future as ban goes into effect

Federal regulators are implementing a temporary ban on fishing for cod, saying the species is in steep decline.

Bill Cosby during an interview about the exhibit ?Conversations: African and African-American Artworks in Dialogue? at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art in Washington on Nov. 6.

Thing Tank

Bill Cosby might want to log off for a while

It?s been a weird/bad/worsening few months for Bill Cosby.

Double Shot

Bean Box delivers coffee from Seattle to your doorstep

Bean Box ? a new coffee supplier ? is trying to make it more convenient for you to grab coffee without ever having to even travel to Seattle.

opinion | Niall Ferguson

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The president?s fumbling foreign policy played a key part in the Democrats? defeat.

Alyssa Mendez, the sister of Jaimee Mendez, spoke to the media from the location where some of her sister's belongings were found.

Sister of missing Swampscott woman appeals for help

The sister of Jaimee Mendez said she hopes a Salem woman who was found after being missing will share what she knows, if anything.

James O'Connell of Worcester filled his car at a Cumberland Farms near home before his daily commute to bring son Owen (in car) to school in Connecticut.

Chris Christo for The Boston Globe

Mass. residents enjoy benefits of low gas prices

Gas prices below $3 a gallon are taking pressure off family budgets at a time when wages are barely growing.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/10/29/BostonGlobe.com/Special/Images/maeda_LongwoodSports_special1.jpg The future of treating ACL tears: No cutting, no surgery

About 400,000 people a year tear their knee ligament. Dr. Martha Murray has an idea for a less-invasive repair.

Putting Jon Lester back in a Red Sox uniform would help the team solve some its starting pitching problems.

Peter Abraham | Analysis

Why the Red Sox should re-sign Jon Lester

Risks abound in the search for top-line starting pitching. So here?s the solution: The Sox should admit they were wrong and sign Jon Lester.

Opinion

TOM KEANE

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/11/11/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/tkeane-1121.png Democrats? coalition will rise again

Politics tends to go in cycles. Democrats were in ascendency six years ago; Republicans are up now.