Fishing Places, Fishing People

Published by University of Toronto Press 1999

Fishing Places, Fishing People

Traditions and Issues in Canadian Small-Scale Fisheries

Edited by: Dianne Newell and Rosemary Ommer

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442674936

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Using case studies drawn from across Canada, the papers demonstrate that there are many shared issues in the various small-scale fisheries of this country, and locate small-scale fisheries in their historical context as well as in that of global concerns.

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NewellDianne:

Dianne Newell is a professor of history at the University of British Columbia and author of Tangled Webs of History: Indians and the Law in Canada's Pacific Cost Fisheries.

OmmerRosemary:

Rosemary E. Ommer is a professor of history at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and author of From Outpost to Outport: A Structural Analysis of the Jersey-Gaspé Fishery, 1767-1886.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
1. Introduction: Traditions and Issues Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One: Community Roots and Commerce
The Strait of Belle Isle Rosemary E. Ommer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2. Rosie's Cove: Settlement Morphology, History, Economy, and Culture in a Newfoundland Outport Rosemary E. Ommer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
3. Familial and Social Patriarchy in the Newfoundland Fishing Industry Barbara Neis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
4. 'The Water and the Life': Family, Work, and Trade in the Commercial Poundnet Fisheries of Grand Bend, Ontario, 1890-1955 Jean L. Manore and John J. Van West Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
5 'Ould Betsy and Her Daughter': Fur Trade Fisheries in Northern Ontario Arthur J. Ray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
6. Depletion by the Market: Commercialization and Resource Management of Manitoba's Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens), 1885-1935 Frank J. Tough Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
7. 'Overlapping Territories and Entwined Cultures': A Voyage into the Northern BC Spawn-on-Kelp Fishery Dianne Newell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Part Two: State Management and States of Knowledge
8. Failed Proposals for Fisheries Management and Conservation in Newfoundland, 1855-1880 Sean T. Cadigan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
9. An Ojibwa Community, American Sportsmen, and the Ontario Government in the Early Management of the Nipigon River Fishery J. Michael Thoms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
10. Estimating Historical Sturgeon Harvests on the Nelson River, Manitoba Peter J. Usher and Frank J. Tough Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
11. An Interdisciplinary Method for Collecting and Integrating Fishers' Ecological Knowledge into Resource Management Barbara Neis, Lawrence F. Felt, Richard L. Haedrich and David C. Schneider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
12. Groundfish Assemblages of Eastern Canada Examined over Two Decades Marimar G. Villagarcía, Richard L. Haedrich and Johanne Fischer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
13. The Biological Collapse of Newfoundland's Northern Cod Jeffrey A. Hutchings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	260
14. Tying It Together along the BC Coast Patricia Gallaugher and Kelly M. Vodden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
Part Three: Communities of Interest - Where Now?
15. 'That's Not Right': Resistance to Enclosure in a Newfoundland Crab Fishery Bonnie J. McCay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
16. A Future without Fish? Constructing Social Life on Newfoundland's Bonavista Peninsula after the Cod Moratorium Peter R. Sinclair, With Heather Squires and Lynn Downton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
17. Directions, Principles, and Practice in the Shared Governance of Canadian Marine Fisheries Evelyn Pinkerton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	340
18. Fisheries Management: Putting Our Future in Places Daniel J. Pauly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
19 Conclusion: Lessons Learned Dianne Newell and Rosemary E. Ommer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 412

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Published: January 29, 2016
ISBN: 9781442674936