The Last Northern Cod
Abstract: Social scientists in Atlantic Canada developed an incisive political economy of the region’s fisheries in the 1970s and 1980s and forged a sharp critique of Canadian fisheries policies. Meanwhile, fisheries scientists generated a series of stock assessments which substantially overestimate...
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doaj-06491551c89040eb9fc81962af486d122020-11-25T03:35:57ZengUniversity of Arizona LibrariesJournal of Political Ecology1073-04511997-12-0141415410.2458/v4i1.2134520766The Last Northern CodThomas R. McGuireAbstract: Social scientists in Atlantic Canada developed an incisive political economy of the region’s fisheries in the 1970s and 1980s and forged a sharp critique of Canadian fisheries policies. Meanwhile, fisheries scientists generated a series of stock assessments which substantially overestimated cod populations. After the collapse of the stocks in 1992, a number of reflective postmortems have addressed the role of the social and natural sciences in this resource failure. The present paper will attempt to construct a “political ecology” of the crisis from this corpus, one which does not, a priori, privilege industrial capitalism over cod ecology. Key Words: fisheries, cultural ecology, political economy, technology, Atlantic Canada, cod.https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/JPE/article/view/21345 |
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Abstract: Social scientists in Atlantic Canada developed an incisive political economy of the region’s fisheries in the 1970s and 1980s and forged a sharp critique of Canadian fisheries policies. Meanwhile, fisheries scientists generated a series of stock assessments which substantially overestimated cod populations. After the collapse of the stocks in 1992, a number of reflective postmortems have addressed the role of the social and natural sciences in this resource failure. The present paper will attempt to construct a “political ecology” of the crisis from this corpus, one which does not, a priori, privilege industrial capitalism over cod ecology.
Key Words: fisheries, cultural ecology, political economy, technology, Atlantic Canada, cod. |
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