Cod facts for kids
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Cod is a teleost fish that lives in the ocean, where it is one of the larger predators. There about 12 different genera.
Cod is an important type of fish for professional fishing. It is also popular to eat, because it is mild in taste. The livers of cods are processed to get cod liver oil. Along with Haddock and Plaice, cod is a very common fish to use for Fish and Chips.
Cod has been traded about since the period of the Vikings. Cod grows to about 5 ft long. The biggest one ever caught weighed about 104 pounds.
Images for kids
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The Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua
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A fish with its gills infested with two cod worms
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Preserved codfish
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Sixteenth-century Flemish fishmonger displaying cod, by Joachim Beuckelaer
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The Atlantic fishery abruptly collapsed in 1992, following overfishing since the late 1950s, and an earlier partial collapse in the 1970s.
