Faces People, Places, and World Culture for Kids and Children

OH MY COD

Why and how did the Basques travel from Western Europe to the banks of Newfoundland, Canada, in the early 1500s? The answer—they had discovered cod.

The cod is a fish native to the cold waters of the northern Atlantic Ocean and the North and Barents seas. Young cod have special enzymes in their bodies that act like a

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