Initial research into this fish produced nothing of interest. It's a cod, we eat it, the end. Aside from their cannibalistic attention paid to their young, there was hardly anything to judge here. Then, gentle reader, I checked the EOL's Common Name section and that's where the magic happened. Due to the large quantities of cod devoured by man, we have come to pay it a lot of attention but can't seem to agree on a name.
Here is just a smattering of the myriad pseudonyms for this aquatic c-student: The berry fish, the breeder, the bull dog, the Christmas fish, cod (unsurprisingly although it is also known as the cod-fish to avoid confusion), Duffy, the dumb fish, the eating fish, fish (why not?), the grog fish, the hard cure, the hen, the Italian, the Laggy, the Merchantable, the mother fish, the old soaker, the pea, the slop, the snig, the snub, the strip, the torsk, and the tom-cod. These are only a sample and the list goes on and on in multiple languages. From these names, a richer perspective of this fish opens up. Apparently they are dumb, eaten at Christmas and also a fish. What a remarkable vocabulary our fish-naming ancestors had.
I Judge them: Worthy of Extinction (I'm really not a fan of fish, besides, I think we're done with this one)
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