Arrigorriaga
Town on the Nerbioi (Nervión) River just upstream from Bilbao. In Cod it is home to the salt cod importer Baisfa.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cod | Mark Kurlansky | setting | Baisfa’s director, behind window grilles shaped like salt cod, explains how Basques went from catching cod to importing it. |
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World — Mark Kurlansky (1997)
Source: Cod · Original · Readwise highlight
A few miles up the Nerbioi River from Bilbao, in the town of Arrigorriaga, Adolfo Eguino’s office overlooked the steep green Basque mountains.
- Role: setting
- In the book: Adolfo Eguino, director of the bacalao company Baisfa, works behind window grilles shaped like splayed salt cod. He explains how the Basque cod companies of Bilbao and Pasajes closed in the 1960s and the Basques turned to importing Icelandic salt cod, now trucked from Rotterdam.
- Why it matters: It shows the end of the Basque cod fleets.