Fishwork and Coastal Ecologies in the Sixteenth-Century Northwest Atlantic.
In the sixteenth century, European mariners established a permanent commercial fishery in the northwest Atlantic which they called Terra Nova. While scholars have reconstructed its history, an important question remains unanswered: what impact did the seasonal fishery have on coastal ecologies in it...
| Publicado en: | American Review of Canadian Studies Vol. 55; no. 1; pp. 5 - 33 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2025
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