For over three centuries Portuguese whalers and cod fishermen emigrated from their homes 3,000 miles to the west across the Atlantic Ocean to live and work the in the fertile north Atlantic Fisheries. The members of New Bedford’s United Fishermen’s Club have much in common with the fishermen in their ancestral home of Portugal. They speak the same language and celebrate with great passion an independent way of life. Unfortunately they too are victims of the collapse of the cod fishery.
