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"sack trade" dissolved after 1709 because of changes in cod curing processes and provincial demand for sugar as well as molasses. Atlantic demand for dried cod pushed New England and Newfoundland competency thresholds for angling into transatlantic barter and exchange economies. These shifting conceptions, and scope of, provincial competency resulted in New England and Newfoundland schooners searching for more and more fishing sites along northeastern banks. Fishermen remained

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