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Fishes

The fishes of the world and how they are taken — by hand, trap, longline or rod. One page per fish, however many seas it swims.

Fishes

European eel

Anguilla anguilla

Every eel in every European river was born in the same patch of the Atlantic — and nobody has ever seen it…

Johannes Schmidt, “The Breeding Places of the Eel”,…
Fishes

Atlantic cod

Gadus morhua

For five centuries the fish that paid for ships — split, salted and dried on wooden racks, it travelled further than the…

Mark Kurlansky, Cod: A Biography of the Fish…