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What is a blackback?

What is a blackback? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (zoology) An adolescent male gorilla or chimpanzee.
  2. (Britain) the great black-backed gull.
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For blackback, they limited us to going to what we call Offer Gooseberry Island.
What I gathered was that a fair bit of cod was caught in the blackback fishery.
The actual cod grounds are not handy to where you put your blackback nets, and we're still finding cod there.
For example, on the blackback fishery this year, DFO decided to change the mesh size to five and a half inches from six and a half inches.
Why use five-and-a-half-inch gear if you can't sell the blackback that's in it?
Certainly they have the blackback fishery, which turned out to be a cod fishery, and whether it was designed that way we can argue.

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