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Show Fish Made Newfoundland Famous. Newfoundland is the place where cod liver oil comes from and transatlantic transat-lantic planes go from. But, in the recent re-cent excitement over trnnsocean fliglits, the cod liver oil and the codfish that furnish it have been nearly forgotten by most of us. Newfoundland has the greatest cod-fisheries cod-fisheries in the world. The annual catch is estimated at 2,500,000 quintals a quintal being one-twentieth of a ton. One-half of this catch is exported, nnd its value is about $G,000,000. Most of the cod is dried before it is exported. ex-ported. Nearly all people in Newfoundland live by working for some branch of the great codfish business. Popular Science Monthly. |