• Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    The northern cod fishery was the backbone of the province’s economy for centuries, before stock began to collapse….

    It doesn’t say, but I presume the province in question here is Newfoundland and Labrador?

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      The colonists that came over said they were so bountiful they could lower buckets into the water and come up with them.

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      That’s correct. Or at least I got the article from the NFLD section of the site.