Paimpol is famous to have been at the beginning of the XXth century one of the ports of the big fishing, off Iceland.
Pierre Loti will make a novel in 1886, Fisherman of Iceland.
Europe discovers, from the beginning of the XVth century, thanks to the Portuguese business, a fish: the cod and the increasing consumption of this product, pulls a considerable increase of flotillas to go fishing in high sea.
In France, Breton sailors of Paimpol and Saint Malo, Norman sailors of Barfleur and Dieppe, finally the others of La Rochelle and Basque country leave fishing for the cod off the Canadian coast and in the gulf of the Saint Lawrence.
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