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a fish so good wars were fought over it
means A large, cold-water bottom-dwelling fish prized for its mild white flesh and abundance, long a staple of North Atlantic fisheries.
from The origin of 'cod' is genuinely murky — it surfaces in Middle English with no clear ancestor, and scholars admit they simply don't know where it came from. One old sense of 'cod' meant a bag or pouch (as in 'codpiece'), and some have wondered whether the rounded fish borrowed that name, but this connection is speculation rather than established fact.
- actual wars
- three Cod Wars fought between UK and Iceland
- colonial empire
- dried cod fueled Atlantic trade and slavery routes
- egg machine
- a single female releases millions of eggs
- near collapse
- Atlantic stocks crashed 99% by the 1990s
- name irony
- codpieces had nothing to do with the fish
atlantic cod — commercial fish species that collapsed in newfoundland fishery in 1992, ending 500-year industry
northeast arctic cod — barents sea population managed by russia-norway agreement, world's largest spawning aggregation
pacific cod — distinct species in north pacific from alaska to japan, major fishery in bering sea