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I just read an amazing book called simply "cod". By the author Tankursly (I think I have that correct). Cod was the driving force in the discover of America and many other places. It was also critical in the slave trade and fed the hundreds of thousands of slaves in the carribean who were growing sugar cane, making booze and growing spices. They were primarily fed salt cod. Even today you can find salt cod dishes on all the islands...yet people who have been eating for generations have never seen a fresh cod nor a cod head. Incredible book. It does talk about how the cod stocks from around the world have been destroyed and the pains going on to bring them back. It talks about how the governments and scientific experts for hundreds of years thought it was impossible to depleat the stocks. Many cod were over 5 feet long and weighed 160 lbs.
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