Social capital and sustainability in a Newfoundland fishing community

• Main Author: Silk, Victoria
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of British Columbia 2007
• Subjects: social capital; fisheries; sustainable communities; Coleman; Petty; Petty Harbour; Gadus morhua; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/349

The intent of this thesis is to conduct an empirical study of social capital in a single resource dependent fishing community, Petty Harbour, Newfoundland. The community under study, Petty Harbour, has a 335 year attachment to what was its primary fishery, Northern cod (Gadus morhua). This ended in...