Fisheries Flashcards
Codfish & Grand banks
Grand banks is an offshore fishing spot of the coast of NWFL - cod migrated from deep offshore waters into shallow waters to feed.
lots of cod, no natural predators
John Cabot
Italian explorer who was the first to open the news of a good fishing spot
European demand
came from the catholics, and everyone else because it was cheap and healthy
Basque Whalers
Came from the pyrenees mountains between spain and france
they fished the Grand banks and the belle isle straight before John Cabot
Had good indigenous relations, but not with the Inuit, becasue they competed for hunting whales, walruses, and seabirds
What were whales used for?
Hunted for their blubber - for lamp oil and lubricant
baleen - whale bone used for corsets, hats and umbrellas
NFLD Cod Fishery
developed an inshore fishery close to an inshore water source
men made boat trips out to sea, then droped off their load to be processed in “fishing rooms”
Technological Expansion of Fishing
fishing vessels became larger, safer, faster
they could stay out at sea longer, not having to go to NA
or climate change pushed fish into deeper waters
an inshore fishery still remained by the english, settled here year round, more permanent houses
Sustainability of Fishing
lasted throughout the 17-19th century becasue people didn’t fish the cod out, still could reproduce and maintain pop. overfished by the 1980’s because of larger ships, combustion engines, refridgeration, fish finders, trolling techniques
Fishing moratorium:
Gov. prohibited cod fishing - putting NFLD out of buisiness
Why did it Colapse?
- overfishing
- Tragedy of the Commons
- negativity about the emergence of capitalism & overexploitation of resources.
Cod as a staple
Exploited for profit
describes how Canada historically developed from an economic perspective
Canada developed because of it’s natural Resourses
Indienous food production myths
- they were small scale producers
- they had no regulatory limits on food - no concept on private property
Salmon Harvesting and trading
Hot commedy in a system of exchange in Indigenous economies
Internal -traded among local groups
External - traded to other groups father away
Used spears, gaffs, traps, dipnets
rive wide weirs - wooden gates, problamatic because they got washed out with the seasonal flooding
Preservation of salmon
used drying racks and smoke houses
Indiginous resourse management
Prioritized needs and social classes
there was family ownership for fishing spots
better resourses went to people of respect or power
Potlatch
a way to display your wealth, but also to share as a community
was banned by the Government as a way to erode the culture and force assimilation
Industrial Salmon Fishing
decline in the fish stalk in the late 20th C because of unregulated fishing
