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Fish flake

Cod spread out to dry, n.d.
This late 19th century drawing reflects the predominant method of fish drying used in the resident fishery in Newfoundland from the late 18th to the mid 20th century.

Illustration by Percival Skelton. From Joseph Hatton and M. Harvey, Newfoundland, the Oldest British Colony (London: Chapman and Hall, 1883) 290.
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