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The History of the Atlantic Cod
Atlantic cod can be found throughout the northern Atlantic Ocean from like North Carolina up the coast of North America and over to Europe. In Europe going way back people who live near the sea would eat cod and in particular the Vikings who were big sailors they fished for a lot of cod and ate a lots of cod. A little bit later around the turn of the millennium the Basque who lived around what's now northern Spain and southern France also happened upon these incredibly rich cod stocks. And so we don't have much history of this but we do know that they were here before Christopher Columbus got here.
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