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It is harder to kill off fish than mammals. But after 1,000 years of hunting the Atlantic cod, we know that it can be done.

— Mark Kurlansky Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World (1997)

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All revolutions are to some degree about money.

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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World (1997)

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