The Winding Glass: Everything You Want to Know About Cod and the Demise of Whitefish
As a New Englander cod is my iconic fish. Just as in Newfoundland, where ‘fish’ means cod, so in New England we have Cape Cod. The sacred cod hangs in the Massachusetts State House. Cod has fished here for more than 500 years, about a century before the first permanent European settlements.
Our old sea shanties reflect the dominance of cod.
Cape Cod Girls they have no combs,
(heave away, heave away)
they comb their hair with codfish bones,
we’re bound for Australia..
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