Small fishing boats moored beside a row of waterfront houses in a coastal fishing village, forested hills rising behind.

Cod: The Fish That Changed The World

Best Writing in a Documentary Program or Series, Gemini Awards

Format
Series: 3 × 60
Broadcaster
Discovery
Distributor
Primitive Entertainment

Project info

Cod was the reason sailors braved the uncharted Atlantic as far as North America, and for the first several hundred years of colonization, it was the mainstay of existence on this side of the ocean.

It was a thriving industry and culture for a thousand years all around the Atlantic — and then, suddenly, it disappeared. Why?

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