Atlantic cod text from the reference. Atlantic cod The Atlantic cod ("Gadus morhua") is a benthopelagic fish of the family Gadidae, widely consumed by humans. It is also commercially known as cod or codling. Dry cod may be prepared as unsalted stockfish, as cured salt cod or clipfish. In the western Atlantic Ocean, cod has a distribution north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and around both coasts of Greenland and the Labrador Sea; in the eastern Atlantic, it is found from the Bay of Biscay north to the Arctic Ocean, including the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, Sea of the Hebrides, areas
Cape Cod "Cottages at North Truro" (1936). Norman Mailer's 1984 noir thriller and murder mystery novel "Tough Guys Don't Dance" is set in Provincetown on Cape Cod. According to Cole Porter's song "Let's Do It," "cold Cape Cod clams 'gainst their wish do it." The band Vampire Weekend's self-titled LP contains two songs mentioning Cape Cod, "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" and "Walcott". In 1996, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts allowed the creation of a "Cape & Islands" registration plate. Cape Cod Cape Cod is a geographic cape extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of mainland Massachusetts, in the northeastern United