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| | Amazon.com: Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World: Books: Mark Kurlansky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The cod fishery is in trouble, deep trouble, as the Atlantic fish has been fished almost to extinction. |
 | | If Aldous Huxley's grandfather, Thomas, asserted in the 19th century that cod would never become extinct, it was only because he could not imagine the rapid technological changes which would turn fishing into harvesting, and the classic practice of drying fish into freezing it, on board the fishing boats themselves. |
 | | The book tells many interesting episodes in cod's history: the secret cod fishing grounds of the Basques, the cod wars of the Icelanders and the British, the White Fishing Fleet of the Portuguese, the exhaustion of the cod stocks by the Newfoundlanders, and many other historic facts in between. |
| www.amazon.com /Cod-Biography-That-Changed-World/dp/0140275010 (2011 words) |
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