Greenlandic Fishing Foodways

Specialised

GREENLAND HALIBUT is the backbone of the modern economy, fished through the ice in Disko Bay and at Uummannaq and exported worldwide; COLD-WATER PRAWN is the other great export. Then cod, Atlantic and Arctic; redfish; lumpfish and its roe; capelin — ammassat — dried in enormous quantity in summer; Arctic char from the rivers and lakes, dried, smoked and eaten raw; and snow crab and mussels.