7 per cent of the cod consumed in the UK comes from the North or Irish Seas; 85 per cent comes from Iceland, Norway, the Faroes and Russia . 10 per cent of all fish caught worldwide is cod 15th ...

“The cod is literally why us Newfoundlanders are here,” Wareham said. “You’ve probably heard the story, but we had an Italian explorer — his English name was John Cabot — and he came ...

However, Holm's main focus for the ERC-funded project is on the later "fish revolution" in Europe, when cod comes into its own. One of the turning points was in 1497, when navigator John Cabot ...

A well-known Heritage Minute shows the explorer John Cabot hauling up cod in a basket, but for almost 200 years, the Northern cod fishery had very little impact on the total cod biomass. From the 18th ...