With the sharp decline in the world stocks of cod, other salted and dried white fish are sometimes marketed as salt cod, and the term has become to some extent a generic name.ried cod and the dishes made from it are known by many different names, many of them derived from the root bacal- , itself of unknown origin; explorer John Cabot reported that it was the name used by the inhabitants of Newfoundland.
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