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The first cod war
How England’s government-licensed pirates stole the Newfoundland fishery from Europe’s largest feudal empire.
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Newfoundland = New found fish
While treasure fleets carried silver to Spain, far more ships were carrying men, fish and whale oil across the North Atlantic.
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Commodity cod & factory ships
Beginning a series on the role of fishing in the birth and spread of capitalism, and the role of capitalism in today’s mass extinction of ocean life.
![“In the sixteenth and partly still in the seventeenth, the sudden expansion of trade and the creation of a new world market had an overwhelming influence on the defeat of the old mode of production and the rise of the capitalist mode.” — Karl Marx[1]](https://f3b9m7v4.delivery.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/boat-200x200.png)
