Portuguese and Norwegian dried salted cod suppliers are betting on a late spurt in pre-Easter business to shore up sales during their most vital period of the year.
Almost two-thirds of Brazil's 210 million population are Roman Catholics, and many of them abstain from eating red meat for the 40 days of Lent, when producers get a large slice of their annual sales.
But in recent weeks, numbers amid the coronavirus health crisis sales have been erratic.
