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Margaret Visser: Mega-Fish, 16 April 1998
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
by Mark Kurlansky.
Cape, 294 pp., £12.99, March 1998,0 224 05104 0 Show More
by Mark Kurlansky.
Cape, 294 pp., £12.99, March 1998,
“... A species of fish too well known to require any description,’ reads the entry for cod in the Cyclopedia of Commerce and Commercial Navigation (1858). ‘It is amazingly prolific,’ the article continues. ‘Leewenhoek counted 9,384,000 eggs in a codfish of a middling size – a number that will baffle all the efforts of man to exterminate.’ People have long enjoyed marvelling at the sheer amount, the endlessness of cod ... ”