I believe its probably like this quote: > and around 1600 English fishing captains still reported cod shoals "so thick by the shore that we hardly have been a

I believe its probably like this quote: > and around 1600 English fishing captains still reported cod shoals "so thick by the shore that we hardly have been able to row a boat through them." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_fishing_in_Newfoundland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_fishing_in_Newfoundland