| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Miriam Wright. A Fishery for Modern Times: The State and the Industrialization of the Newfoundland Fishery, 1934–1968. (The Canadian Social History Series.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2001. Pp. viii, 196. $19.95.

One of the most devastating environmental disasters of the last quarter of the twentieth century was the collapse of cod stocks in the North Atlantic. The dramatic depletion of stocks resulted in the Canadian government placing a moratorium on cod fishing in its territorial waters in the early 1990s. It was in Newfoundland where the moratorium had the greatest impact, as 30,000 fishers and plant workers were displaced, shattering the economy of the island province. Miriam Wright provides a compelling political economy of the Newfoundland fisheries in the period from the 1930s to 1970s. In particular, Wright chronicles the importance of government policies informed by the "modernization" ideology of the period, the expansion of international fishing fleets, and the introduction of new technologies as factors contributing to the contemporary crisis. . . .

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