One night, as an 18-year-old line cook at Fish Face in Sydney, Josh Niland forgot to transfer 15 uncooked portions of kingfish from a service refrigerator back to the walk-in. The next day, he got an ...

, along the Arctic Circle, thousands of cod are lifted onto wooden racks called hjell. They will hang there for months, exposed to sun and wind, cold and decay — the success of the year’s stockfish ...