fish board

fish board
a wooden platform used as a table on Newfoundland fishing boats. Cod, salt meat and potatoes were cooked in a pot and thrown on the fish board. Each fisherman took a seat around the board and ate away until it was all finished

Dictionary of ichthyology. 2009.

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