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Original Title: TIL early American colonists once “stood staring in disbelief at the quantities of fish.” One man wrote “there was as great a supply of herring as there is water. In a word, it is unbelievable, indeed, indescribable, as also incomprehensible, what quantity is found there. One must behold oneself.”