Parasites from ‘Alien Shores’: The Decline of Canada's Freshwater Fishing Industry
Abstract: After 1900, the Northwest fishing industry expanded substantially from southern Manitoba to the Northwest Territories, with production directed principally to American urban markets. In response to the economic crisis of the 1930s, new international trade regulations prohibited the importa...
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crunivtoronpr:10.3138/chr.91.1.87 2023-12-31T10:21:22+01:00 Parasites from ‘Alien Shores’: The Decline of Canada's Freshwater Fishing Industry Piper, Liza 2010 http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/chr.91.1.87 https://utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/chr.91.1.87 en eng University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) Canadian Historical Review volume 91, issue 1, page 87-114 ISSN 0008-3755 1710-1093 Religious studies History journal-article 2010 crunivtoronpr https://doi.org/10.3138/chr.91.1.87 2023-12-01T08:18:24Z Abstract: After 1900, the Northwest fishing industry expanded substantially from southern Manitoba to the Northwest Territories, with production directed principally to American urban markets. In response to the economic crisis of the 1930s, new international trade regulations prohibited the importation of fish infected with the Triaenophorus parasite and included two of the most important commercial freshwater fish species: tullibee and lake whitefish. In the following decades, in spite of repeated state and scientific interventions in the fishery, Canada's freshwater fishing industry was unable to fully recover from the economic impacts of the new trade regulations. This failure reflected the unprecedented influence of the parasite and its ecological relationships to other species and the freshwaters in which it was found. This paper goes beyond a conventional narrative of the impacts of economic protectionism to ascertain how the natural context in which resources such as fish are found intervenes in human socio-economic affairs. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northwest Territories University of Toronto Press (U Toronto Press - via Crossref) Canadian Historical Review 91 1 87 114 |
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Abstract: After 1900, the Northwest fishing industry expanded substantially from southern Manitoba to the Northwest Territories, with production directed principally to American urban markets. In response to the economic crisis of the 1930s, new international trade regulations prohibited the importation of fish infected with the Triaenophorus parasite and included two of the most important commercial freshwater fish species: tullibee and lake whitefish. In the following decades, in spite of repeated state and scientific interventions in the fishery, Canada's freshwater fishing industry was unable to fully recover from the economic impacts of the new trade regulations. This failure reflected the unprecedented influence of the parasite and its ecological relationships to other species and the freshwaters in which it was found. This paper goes beyond a conventional narrative of the impacts of economic protectionism to ascertain how the natural context in which resources such as fish are found intervenes in human socio-economic affairs. |
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Parasites from ‘Alien Shores’: The Decline of Canada's Freshwater Fishing Industry |
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Parasites from ‘Alien Shores’: The Decline of Canada's Freshwater Fishing Industry |
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parasites from ‘alien shores’: the decline of canada's freshwater fishing industry |
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