When John Our was a kid, he’d go out to sea with his father and see enormous factory trawlers from Russia and Poland catch so much herring it would take days to cut all the fish.
Small boats from the Cape that relied on groundfish wouldn’t stick around because once herring were gone, so were the cod and haddock that fed on them.
More than 50 years later, the foreign fleet is a memory, pushed beyond 200 miles by federal law. But there still is no herring.