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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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So really, you put in blackback nets, but direct them for cod, in 15 fathoms of water.
I didn't want to wade in on the blackback fishery, but I almost feel compelled to make a comment on it.
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 blackback, they limited us to going to what we call Offer Gooseberry Island.
It was superb: a whole blackback flounder in lobster butter with caviar, served alongside a separate casserole of delectable, creamy polenta.

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