The 100-year struggle to rename black cod 'sablefislr

摘要

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet," pondered Juliet as she swooned for Romeo.Fishermen, brokers, and the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries considered a less romantic, yet similar, question in 1916: "Would a black cod by any other name sell better?"And thus began the now 100-year-old odyssey to call the black cod "sablefish."