A place or database where genetic material, eggs, or other biological specimens from cod fish are stored for research or breeding purposes.
From 'cod' (the Atlantic fish) plus 'bank' (a storage facility or reserve); created in the modern era as fishing and aquaculture industries needed specialized terminology.
As wild cod populations collapsed from overfishing, codbanks became desperate attempts to preserve the species genetically—they're essentially biological life rafts for an entire fish population that humans nearly fished into extinction.
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