January to April is the season of the most Cod in the Arctic, millions of cod like rows of rugby, swinging their round bodies, flocking to the North Atlantic, it is said that these cod expeditions from the Barents Sea to this place, if tourists can catch this fish event, catch a few dozen pounds of large cod is a common thing.
In mid-December, the boat reached the Norwegian port of Bode, located in the Arctic Circle, and encountered a cold winter. As I was out of the Mediterranean, I received a weather forecast saying that Bode was affected by a strong cold air, with a minimum temperature of minus 0.5 degrees Celsius. Fortunately, the Norwegian Sea is affected by a warm current in the Atlantic Ocean, but it only forms a thin layer of ice floes, which does not affect navigation and work.
Drive into the Arctic Circle, and the sea is full of ice floes
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Arctic cod and dishes</h1>
I went to Norway to witness a variety of dishes based on cod all over the large and small restaurants in Norway, eating seafood in Norway, and the dishes served on the table were definitely cooked with cod as raw materials.
Norwegians make a delicacy made from cod
The most famous cod dish is the pickled cod, which is known as one of the most alternative foods and is the masterpiece of the nordic voyage explorers. At that time, there was no refrigeration equipment on board, and the fish caught could only be preserved for a long time after being pickled, among which the Arctic cod meat was thick and less delicious, which was most suitable for pickling, which has been passed down to this day and has become a traditional delicacy of the Nordics.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Arctic cod found in seafaring expeditions</h1>
Norway's territory is long from north to south, with a long and tortuous coastline and numerous coastal islands, known as the "Land of Ten Thousand Islands", which has become the home of fish, and the Arctic cod is a specialty here.
As early as 1586, the English navigator Davis set out for the Arctic, and his fleet found a large island in the ocean not far from the Labrador Peninsula in eastern Canada, where they found Arctic cod.
At that time, several of the crew members of the expedition, who had been fishermen, caught forty or fifty large cod in one go with improvised hooks. Davis saw that it was profitable, and the expedition ship turned into a fishing boat, and the fatigue, pain, and fear along the way were dissipated by the harvest of cod.
Norwegian winter town
Upon returning to England, the expedition ships laden with cod were warmly welcomed by fishery capitalists, who funded Davis's next expedition in hopes of catching more cod and opening up the cod market. This is the biggest benefit of Davis's adventure career, and he has made the world's unknown cod on the seafood elegant hall.
Winter in Norway
< h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > boats travel to the Arctic Circle and catch big fish on cold nights</h1>
Our crew knew all about this allusion between the navigator and the cod, so the boat entered the Arctic Circle, and everyone tacitly wanted to catch a big cod.
After dinner, a few crew members who were not afraid of the cold went to the leeward side of the living area outside the ship to try to throw the hook, and this test found that the wind and the flow were urgent, and the small hook fell to the bottom, so some crew members changed to thick lines, large hooks, and heavy falls, and there was no large hook to simply give up.
The anglers retreated in less than five minutes, because the crew did not bring cotton shoes on board, and the feet could not stand the cold, so they fastened the end of the fishing line, and the wishers took the bait and sneaked to the restaurant to watch TV. I counted the hours I left, and there were five fishing lines in the sea.
Snow up and down the wooden house
At ten o'clock in the evening, the local TV station played a seemingly incomprehensible TV series, and the waiter suddenly shouted: "Whose hook is the fish?" After he finished shouting in this voice, eight people went to see, and five people pulled the line each, but no one could pull it, and tried to pull it a few times, judging that it was a fish that made trouble and wrapped the five threads together.
Then five people work together to close the line, and it will run away long ago if it wants to be decoupled anyway. Finally pulled out of the water, borrowed the searchlight on the boat to see, it was a very large fish, stirring up a wave, it turned out to be a masterpiece of a large hook tied by a thumb-thick nylon rope of a sailor, and the big hook was firmly hung on a large cod that was 1 meter long.
Presumably, after the big fish was hooked, it repeatedly struggled and collided, entangled the four fishing lines not far apart. It is quite difficult to pull this big fish directly onto the boat, because the side of the boat is still six or seven meters above the water.
Condensed and clean Nordic country
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the crowd to pick up the cod</h1>
The sailor captain was not a master of fishing, the work was busy from morning to night, it was easy not to hook the fishing, this time it was crooked, a big fish wisher was hooked. He told everyone to stop pulling the line, and then directed several sailors to quickly lower the gangway, and the sailor Xiao Cao, wearing a life jacket, fastened his seat belt, and went down to the bottom of the gangway with the net pocket for unloading the goods, and firmly connected one end of the seat belt to the gangway as he approached the sea.
After that, he first laid a net pocket under the gangway, and the rope at the four corners of the net pocket was pulled by the people on the deck. When the preparations were made, the second deputy commander, the sailor commander, carried the big fish down the gangway little by little.
It may be that the big fish are too tired, or it may be the relationship between the underwater pressure difference, and everyone does not have much effort to smooth the big fish to the net pocket. The second pair was about to shout to close the net, and the big fish seemed to realize something, and a big turn fled.
The sailor captain had to let go of the line and let it escape until it could not escape, and several people and the sailor captain worked hard again, and the line was closed little by little. At this time, the captain came over, and saw that the four ropes on the four corners of the net pocket were too strong, and suggested that the two people should stand on the gangway, and when the fish entered the net, the two corners were forced and quickly closed to prevent the big fish from escaping.
Norwegians ready to go fishing
The gangway was narrow, and another sailor went down to assist Xiao Cao. This time it finally succeeded, the big fish entered the net pocket, and the two cooperated to quickly close the net and pull up the gangway. After the gangway is parallel to the boat, everyone works together to pull the big fish up the deck.
That night, in addition to the big cod that the sailor grew, others also caught a few slightly smaller cod, even the "rookie" at the time I also caught five cod, three herring, and a fish that could not be named, each cod was more than two or three pounds, if it were not for the frozen foot, I did not want to go out to collect the line, my catch must have far exceeded these.
Norwegian anglers catch large cod
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Arctic cod, Norway's economic fish</h1>
The Arctic cod is distributed throughout the Arctic region, is a typical cold-water fish, and is an important economic fish in the Arctic. Norway, on the other hand, is a long, north-south country with a third of its territory within the Arctic Circle. The city of Bode is the capital of Nordland, just inside the Arctic Circle, where cod are so plentiful.
The city of Bode is home to the world's largest tide, the Salstremen Tide, and within 6 hours, 372 million cubic metres of seawater poured into the Skilstandfjord from the Norwegian Sea, with a fjord inlet only 150 metres wide and 31 metres deep, forming a 3-kilometre-long rapid current when passing through the inlet of the fjord, reaching a speed of 40 to 50 km/h.
Arctic cod are caught with bait
Many visitors have witnessed this spectacle on the bridge. The Skilstead fjord is 500 metres deep and is home to countless cod, herring and other fish. Whenever the weather is right, the deep-water fish leave the bottom layer and float, and the tide carries them into the nearshore waters. Due to the sudden change in water pressure, the fish die instantly, becoming the prey of seagulls and fishermen.
January to April is the season of the most Cod in the Arctic, millions of cod like rows of rugby, swinging their round bodies, flocking to the North Atlantic, it is said that these cod expeditions from the Barents Sea to this place, if tourists can catch this fish event, catch a few dozen pounds of large cod is a common thing, and we came more than ten days earlier.
Large populations of cod swim towards the North Atlantic
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On the day we fished for cod, the weather was not beautiful, the temperature not only continued to drop, but also snowflakes, and in a few moments, we witnessed the real Arctic "cotton" snow. On such a cold Arctic night, who has the heart to fish? When I left the deck, the snow on the deck had passed the upper of the shoe.
The next morning, the wind stopped snowing, the deck was white, the snow at the outlet reached knee depth, and the snow in the windward part of the large hatch was already higher than the canopy, more than 1 meter high. I stood on a high ground and looked out, the docks and land wrapped in silver, lifeless, but fortunately last night, the wind and snow were thick, and the sea surface was only a thin layer of ice, and the ship was not frozen. Moreover, before entering the Arctic Circle, we have warmed all the outdoor pipes that are afraid of freezing, which is also a precaution.
Overnight, the ship froze three feet
Originally, we planned to anchor in the morning, but when we saw that the pier was blocked by heavy snow, the plan was canceled, and we also began a full-staff snow removal battle. Although the sailor chief harvested the most last night, he accidentally cut his finger after returning to the room to clean up the big cod. The captain sailor is the commander-in-chief of the deck operations, not only to take the lead, but also responsible for the storage, distribution, and recovery of tools, and now that it is cold and snowy, he cannot work, otherwise he will freeze the wound.
However, the climate in the Arctic Circle is very evil, and by noon, before the snow has been cleared, the temperature has risen straight to zero, and the snow on the deck has begun to melt.
Everyone was very happy, maybe sleep at noon, the snow will be finished in the afternoon, but the afternoon did not wait for the snow to melt, the temperature dropped to below zero at night, the next day to see, the whole ship has become a real ice and snow world, some sailors quipped: "This is called 'cod' on the frost!" "