Wspanialy wpis, Panie Pioterze...

... i znowu wszystko kreci sie wokol rybek, a konkretnie dorsza.  Ja na dorszu i kargulenie sie wychowalam... te dwie ryby byly serwowane przez moja mame prawie codziennie... dorsz i kargulena byly w latach 70-tych baaardzo tanie, a ja i rodzenstwo przepadalismy za nimi.

Rzeczywiscie o takich dorszach jak na Panskiej fotografii mozna dzis tylko pomarzyc, ale ja takie jeszcze widzialam w Bretanii... oczywiscie w muzeum przetworstwa dorsza... zwiedzenie tego muzeum - to byla dla mnie naprawde wielka atrakcja, polaczona ze zdobyciem bardzo ciekawej profesjonalnej wiedzy o wykorzystaniu i przerobie dorsza dawniej, 100 lat temu i obecnie. 

A co do wpisu - to ciekawe, lokalne polaczenie - dorsz i bank.

No i mały fragment z angielskiej wiki o polowaniach na foki:

"Newfoundland and Labrador and the Gulf or St. Lawrence were the first regions to experience large scale sealing. Migratory fishermen began the hunting from as early as the 1500s. Large-scale commercial seal hunting became an annual event starting in 1723 and expanded rapidly near the turn of the 18th century. Initially, the method used was to ensnare the migrating seals in nets anchored to shore installations, known as the 'landsman seal fishery'. The hunt was mainly for the procurement of seal meat as a form of sustenance for the settlements in the area, rather than for commercial gain.

From the early 18th century English hunters began to range further afield - 1723 marked the first time that hunters armed with firearms ventured forth in boats to increase their haul. This soon became a sophisticated commercial operation; the seals were transported back to England, where the seal's meat, fur and oil were sold separately. From 1749, the import of seal oil to England was being recorded annually, and was used as a lighting oil, for cooking, in the manufacture of soap and for the treating of leather."

"Sealing reached its peak in Newfoundland in the 1860s, with the introduction of more powerful and reliable steamships that were capable of much larger range and storing capacity. Annual catches exceeded the 400,000 mark from the 1870s and smaller sealers were steadily pushed out of the market.

The first modern sealing ship was the SS BearSS, built in Dundee, Scotland in 1874 as a steamer for sealing. The ship was custom-built for sealing out of St. John's, NewfoundlandSt, and was the most outstanding sealing vessel of her day and the lead ship in a new generation of sealers. Heavy-built with six inch (15.2 cm) thick wooden planks, Bear was rigged as a sailing barquentine but her main power was a steam engine designed to smash deep into ice packs to reach seal herds.

At the time of her arrival in St. John's, there were 300 vessels outfitted each season to hunt seals, but most were small schooners or old sailing barques. The new sealing ships represented by Bear radically transformed the Eastern North Atlantic seal fishery as they replaced the hundreds of smaller sealing vessels owned by merchants in outports around Newfoundland with large and expensive steamships owned by large British and Newfoundland companies based in St. John's. Owned at first by the Scottish firm W. Grieve and Sons, she was acquired in 1880 by R. Steele Junior."

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Na banknotach nie ma więc żadnych przypadków ale jest cała historia biznesowego wykorzystania tego rejonu przez GB z oczywistym pominięciem drastycznych szczegółów.