COD

now Europe, common, and and then where it reached it grows America, to be 2 or where 3 ins. long. it is for food purposes, the other two being herring and salmon. The cod periodically visit a submarine bank on which the Lofoten Islands stand, because it is rich (like the Newfoundland and Ma achusetts banks) in sea-weed. The cod are either split and dried on 'stakes’ (from which they get their market name of ‘stock-fish’), or they are salted and dried on the 4 cliffs ’ behind the fishermen's huts (from which they get the market name ot ' klipp-fish’), and there is an important oil industry in connection with the fishery.