.Wherever prosecuted, the product of the cod-fisheries was salted cod. Choice Spanish, Merchantable, Madeira, and West India were just some of the up to twenty-three varieties of dried fish making their ways to markets in southern Europe, the West Indies and South America. Salt fish made the fortunes of many a European and Newfoundland merchant including the Garland family based in Trinity and in Poole in the West Country of England and the Ryans of Bonavista, Trinity and Kings Cove while the average fishing family made very little or no gain -- in the short or the long term. The voyage of fish (a seasons catch) was brought to the merchant for culling (grading) and sold at that seasons prices.
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