Infinitely little fish seconded the efforts of the marine giants, stuffing themselves with the eggs of the herring.

The most gluttonous fish, the cod and the hake, pursued these prairies of meat, pushing them, toward the coasts and finally dispersing them.
The cod increases its species most prodigiously, surfeiting itself upon hake, until the world is again menaced.

The ocean might be converted into a mass of cod, for each one can produce as many as nine million eggs....

Mankind might be overwhelmed under the onslaught of the more fertile fishes, and the cod might maintain immense fleets, creating, besides, colonies and cities.

Human generations might become exhausted without succeeding in conquering this monstrous reproduction.