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Fish were taken off the fishing boats and dried by hand
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Britain is not only, as Napoleon thought, “a nation of shopkeepers”, it is a nation of coastal fishermen too. And one of the most prolific fishing regions in the country has always been Devon. In the 17th Century their search for fish took them around the entire coastline of the British Isles but, as British fish stocks became scarce, they ventured to the faraway waters off the North American coasts. By doing so their part in the original colonisation of Newfoundland and New England became significant. More...
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