choice a Cp NID ~ 4 a 'of meat and other products' for sense 1.
   1 In designation of a quality, cure or 'cull' of dried and salted cod-fish.
   1937 Seafisheries of Nfld 56 The standards of cull for Labrador codfish are: Choice or Number One. Prime or Number Two. Cullage. 1962 Nfld Fisheries Conf 50 We could have good Madeira or good Choice, in other words the expensive fish. Ibid 207 $17.00 for small choice, to $18.50 for large choice. T 36-64 When you sell this fish for market there used to be choice, large and small, and extra large. 1977 Decks Awash vi (3), p. 29 I'll leave here, and in an hour I can have my two traps hauled and I'm back again; give me another half an hour and the fish is in the plants. That's why we can deliver choice quality fish.
   2 Of a fishing 'berth' or 'ground,' prolific in cod-fish; PRIME 3.
   1936 SMITH 149 There were fifteen trap-berths in all, but only two real choice ones, Fox Borough being the favourite.

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