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At other seasons the codfishery on Browns Bank compares favorably with that of other banks in the vicinity.
Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine Walter H. Rich
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Happily the codfishery has been much better this year than last, thus we can more confidently look forward to the coming winter time than we could last year; because our people were so poor and we finished the many kind gifts long before the spring came on, when they were able to earn their own bread.
Bowdoin Boys in Labrador An Account of the Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador led by Prof. Leslie A. Lee of the Biological Department Jonathan Prince Cilley 1877
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All over this ground in depths of from 10 to 40 fathoms. netters from Gloucester and Boston operate in a codfishery In the months of December, January, and February.
Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine Walter H. Rich
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It would therefore be desirable that the State should take another thousand million, to relieve the poor iron manufacturers; or the suffering stockholders of coal mines; or those unfortunate lumber dealers, or the useful codfishery. "
Sophisms of the Protectionists Fr��d��ric Bastiat 1825
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