The universal occupation is that of fishing for COD, sharks, and whales, to which may be added the curing or drying of the first and the "trying out" of the latter, supplemented by the treatment of CODs' livers.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
When completed, it looks very much like ice cream, but it has the flavor of COD liver oil, with a similar odor.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
We then got a hand-line and a COD-hook from the engineer, and baited with squeezed bread, the size of a pigeon's egg, and fished on the bottom, and almost at once had on a heavy fish.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch