Book Review: Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World

Atlantic cod. Public Domain, Link The fisherman of Newfoundland never thought that the cod stocks could run out. With the benefit of hindsight, their folly seems obvious, but as a fisherman in the 20th century, it would be hard to imagine the extinction of cod. Cod had been plentiful off the coast of Newfoundland since Europeans began fishing it in the 1490s (this book speculates that…