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  • Now, people have said that the codfishing is declining, and there is not as much caught as used to be That is not so; there is as much caught today as there ever was.

    Story of Labrador Medical Mission 1921

  • Mary's book shows accounts for as many as 200 Indians, who were primarily engaged in codfishing and fowling but were also performing routine manual labor, and later whaling.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2008

  • To carry the Bonaparte codfishing connection into the the realm of the ridiculous here's a bit of hitherto unknown history.

    The Clinton Gambit (UPDATE) 2006

  • The streams are filled with excellent fish, including the salmon; off the coast are codfishing grounds equal to, if not surpassing, those of

    Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

  • When the lobster season dosed, the men took up codfishing and carried this on till October, when they all moved back to the mainland.

    Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 1908

  • It commenced the day after we took old man Stumpton out codfishing.

    Cape Cod Stories Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • -- In New England the people lived on their own farms, which they cultivated with their own hands and with the help of their children, or engaged in codfishing, whaling, lumbering, shipbuilding, and commerce.

    A Brief History of the United States John Bach McMaster 1892

  • And then there is the Island Current fleet that leaves its City Island home base in mid-December to relocate at Snug Harbor Marina in Wakefield, R.I., for a winter of codfishing.

    NYDN Rss Alexandra Kenney 2011

  • And then there is the Island Current fleet that leaves its City Island home base in mid-December to relocate at Snug Harbor Marina in Wakefield, R.I., for a winter of codfishing.

    NYDN Rss Alexandra Kenney 2011

  • During his father’s lifetime the seine-boats had fared forth regularly every year, each exploring its own corner of the sea, ofttimes twice a year, in the fall before the Lofoten fishing, and in the spring after the codfishing was over.

    The Road Leads On 2003

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