289 Quotes About Fishing
- Author Mark Kurlansky
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When the Basque whalers applied to cod the salting techniques they were using on whale, they discovered a particularly good marriage because the cod is virtually without fat, and so if salted and dried well, would rarely spoil. It would outlast whale, which is red meat, and it would outlast herring, a fatty fish that became a popular salted item of the northern countries in the Middle Ages.
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- Author Mark Kurlansky
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By the time the war ended, Iceland was a changed country. Not least among the changes, in 1944 it had negotiated full independence from Denmark. Now it was free to negotiate its own relations with the rest of the world. Because of cod, it had moved in one generation from a fifteenth-century colonial society to a modern postwar nation.
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- Author Mark Kurlansky
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Newfoundlanders debated over when "the cod was coming back". Few dared ask if. Or what happens to the ocean if they don't come back?
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- Author Mark Kurlansky
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gastronomically, a wild salmon and a farmed salmon have as much in common as a side of wild boar has with pork chops.
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- Author Mark Kurlansky
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How much above zero still produces zero is not known.
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- Author Petter Dass
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Da Høitiden og den berammede FæstFremskinnet, at alle blev buden som Giæst,Var Brudgommen længst uti Havet.Hvad var her at giøre, mand skicket ham bud, Mand satte Fartøyer og Slupper herud, Og allesteds Havet omstrømmet; Hand lod sig dog icke beqvemme dertil,Han bad dem inbiude, hvem Fanden de vil,Den Giæstebud hannem ey sømmet.
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- Author David Stuver
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…if catching fish is your only objective, you are either new to the game or too narrowly focused on measurable results.
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- Author Fennel Hudson
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Angling is a recreation. It’s supposed to be fun.
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- Author Fennel Hudson
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There are a million-and-one ways to enjoy a day’s angling. Catching fish is but one of them.
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