The Development of Fisheries in Greenland, with Focus on Paamiut/Frederikshåb and Sisimiut/Holsteinsborg

• Main Authors: Rasmussen, Rasmus Ole, Hamilton, Lawrence C.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository 2001
• Subjects: Sociology; Greenland; Sisimiut; Paamiut; atlantic cod; Gadus morhua; greenlander*; greenlandic
• Online Access: https://scholars.unh.edu/soc_facpub/453; https://scholars.unh.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1452&context=soc_facpub

Situated along a mountainous coastline between cold seas and continental ice, Greenland’s human populations face severe environmental constraints. Both individual and cultural survival have always depended upon flexible use of the available resources and, when these fail, relocation. The 20th centur...