A History of Alaskas Pacific Cod Fishery. Cod is one of the most widely consumed fish in the world. For many years, the Atlantic cod industry took center stage, but partly thanks to climate change and overfishing, it is more and more likely that the cod on your kitchen table or in your fast food fish fillets came from Alaskas Pacific Cod Fishery.Alaska Codfish Chronicle is the first comprehensive history of this fishery. It looks at the early decades of the fisherys history, a period marked by hardship and danger, as well as the dominance of foreign fishermen. And the modern era, beginning in 1976 when the United States claimed an