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- n lean white flesh of fish similar to but smaller than cod; usually baked or poached or as fillets sauteed or fried
- n important food fish on both sides of the Atlantic; related to cod but usually smaller
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- Populations of cod and haddock in the Northeast Atlantic, once home to some of the richest fishing waters in the world, all but totally collapsed due to overfishing in the 1980s .
- In the North Atlantic, one of the most depleted oceans, populations of popular fish (cod, flounder, haddock, hake and tuna) are just one-sixth of what they were a century ago.