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Commodity illustration: Newfoundland cod

Category:Provisions

Newfoundland cod

Standard price
10 pieces of eight per Ton
Surplus
5 pieces of eight
Scarcity
30 pieces of eight

Export regions

Newfoundland cod is shipped split, flattened and salted, either still moist or dried for keeping. It looks very different from a fresh fish lifted over the gunwale.

It feeds crews, port towns and European customers observing days when meat is forbidden. Fishing on the Newfoundland banks supplies much of the trade. Gutting, splitting, salting and sometimes air-drying preserve a perishable catch for a voyage across the Atlantic.

Sources and adaptations

References in the Pavillon Noir books:

  • Carnet de Vercourt, p. 523.

The description was written by Ludic RPG. Prices are game values expressed in pieces of eight.