Fish flake
Outdoor platform for drying cod in northern fishing villages / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A fish flake is a platform built on poles and spread with boughs for drying cod on the foreshores of fishing villages and small coastal towns in Newfoundland and Nordic countries. Spelling variations for fish flake in Newfoundland include flek, fleyke, fleake, flaik and fleack. The term's first recorded use in connection with fishing appeared in Richard Whitbourne's book Newfoundland (1623, p. 57). In Norway, a flake is known as a hjell.
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This article is about the structure used for drying cod. For the flaked foods fed to aquarium fish, see Aquarium fish feed.