Fishing Places, Fishing People

by Newell, Dianne; Ommer, Rosemary E.

• ISBN13: 9780802041166
• ISBN10: 0802041167
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

Interdisciplinarity is the hallmark of "Fishing Places, Fishing People." It proposes a radically different way of thinking about our current fishery problems and lays the groundwork for an alternative management approach to the fisheries. Comprised of entirely new material, the collection brings together the work of many highly-regarded scholars - historians, biologists, sociologists, anthropologists, consultants, geographers, and ecologists - to discuss this topical issue. Using case studies drawn from across Canada, they demonstrate that there are many shared issues in the various small-scale fisheries of this country, and locate Canadian small-scale fisheries in their historical context as well as in that of global ecological and policy concerns.

Author Biography

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 Coast Fisheries. 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-GaspT Fishery, 1767-1886.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Traditions and Issues	p. 3
Community Roots and Commerce
'The Strait of Belle Isle'	p. 15
Rosie's Cove: Settlement Morphology, History, Economy, and Culture in a Newfoundland Outport	p. 17
Familial and Social Patriarchy in the Newfoundland Fishing Industry	p. 32
'The Water and the Life': Family, Work, and Trade in the Commercial Poundnet Fisheries of Grand Bend, Ontario, 1890-1955	p. 55
'Ould Betsy and Her Daughter': Fur Trade Fisheries in Northern Ontario	p. 80
Depletion by the Market: Commercialization and Resource Management of Manitoba's Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens), 1885-1935	p. 97
'Overlapping Territories and Entwined Cultures': A Voyage into the Northern BC Spawn-on-Kelp Fishery	p. 121
State Management and States of Knowledge
Failed Proposals for Fisheries Management and Conservation in Newfound-land, 1855-1880	p. 147
An Ojibwa Community, American Sportsmen, and the Ontario Government in the Early Management of the Nipigon River Fishery	p. 170
Estimating Historical Sturgeon Harvests on the Nelson River, Manitoba	p. 193
An Interdisciplinary Method for Collecting and Integrating Fishers' Ecological Knowledge into Resource Management	p. 217
Groundfish Assemblages of Eastern Canada Examined over Two Decades	p. 239
The Biological Collapse of Newfoundland's Northern Cod	p. 260
Tying It Together along the BC Coast	p. 276
Communities of Interest - Where Now?
'That's Not Right': Resistance to Enclosure in a Newfoundland Crab Fishery	p. 301
A Future without Fish? Constructing Social Life on Newfoundland's Bonavista Peninsula after the Cod Moratorium	p. 321
Directions, Principles, and Practice in the Shared Governance of Canadian Marine Fisheries	p. 340
Fisheries Management: Putting Our Future in Places	p. 355
Conclusion: Lessons Learned	p. 363
Contributors	p. 369
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