![]() ![]() For the purposes of most of the book, cod refers to G. In this respect, the book is more of a biography of cod-human interaction than cod itself. ![]() Cod biology and natural history is presented in fairly limited terms and even that with a focus on cod's commercial significance. The book presents an assortment of information related to cod, the primary topic. ![]() Today, cod is a depleted fishery and rapidly is becoming increasingly scarce. However, numerous technological improvements and widespread increase in the scale of fishing operations have systematically reduced the various global cod fisheries to commercial insignificance. Cod's prolific reproductive rates were seen for hundreds of years as a guarantee that the species would never be negatively impacted by human activity. As early as 1620, cod fishing was as the center of international conflict as various nations attempted to monopolize rich fishing grounds. Gadus morhua, or cod, has been an important commercial fish for about six hundred years. ![]()
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