I am now aware that it was Basque fishers that most likely were the first Europeans to participate in the Grand Banks cod fishery, not John Cabot and those accompanying him on his voyages to the ...

Fleets of fishing vessels -- from England ... for Newfoundland because of the fortune in cod held in the waters off its coast. John Cabot first reported the abundance of codfish, what the English ...

While argument still persists over his birthplace - Venice or Genoa - when he sailed for a British king, his name was anglicized to John Cabot ... there were so many fish in the waters of the ...