The most popular fish include salmon and cod.

This family includes groupers and coral cod (not related to true cod), which are all characterised by having three spines on the gill cover and a large mouth lined with more than one row of sharp teeth.

It's difficult to imagine that two, or some historians would say three world wars were fought during the colonial era for the control of cod.

It fed the slaves brought to the Antilles, the song Jamaica Farewell Ackee rice salt fish are nice is an emblem of the importance of salt cod from northeastern Canada.

The Hook and Cod wars started around this time and ended when the countess of Holland, Jacoba or Jacqueline was forced to give up Holland to the Burgundian Philip III, known as Philip the Good, in 1432.

Philippa provided royal patronage for English commercial interests that sought to meet the Portuguese desire for cod and cloth in return for wine, cork, salt, and oil shipped through the English warehouses at Porto.

The result of the assay was that the liver of the burbot has three to four times the potency in vitamin D, and four to 10 times in vitamin A, than good grades of cod liver oil.