Newfoundland Cod Trap

n 1867, so the story goes, Joseph Edmund Elliott, while sitting in St. James Church at Change Islands, listening to a sermon on the miraculous draught of fishes, conceived the idea for a cod trap. This Newfoundland Cod Trap, not to be confused with the one invented in 1865 by Capt. W.H. Whiteley, is, with some modifications, still used by Newfoundland fishermen.

A Newfoundland cod trap is a type of fixed fishing-gear used in inshore waters. It is boxed-shaped with a length of net stretching from shore to entrance through which cod enter and are trapped.

Encyclopedia of Newfoundland & Labrador, Volume One
Newfoundland Book Publishers (1967) Limited, Third Printing (1994).
Editor in Chief: Joseph R. Smallwood
Managing Editor: Robert D.W. Pitt

Dictionary of Newfoundland English
Edited by: G.M. Story, W.J. Kirwin, and J.D.A. Widdowson.