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Breaking the Banks - Representations and Realities in New England Fisheries, 1866-1966 (Paperback)
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Breaking the Banks - Representations and Realities in New England Fisheries, 1866-1966 (Paperback)
Series: Environmental History of the Northeast
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With skillful storytelling, Matthew McKenzie weaves together the
industrial, cultural, political, and ecological history of New
England's fisheries through the story of how the Boston haddock
fleet - one of the region's largest and most heavily industrialized
- rose, flourished, and then fished itself into near oblivion
before the arrival of foreign competition in 1961. This fleet also
embodied the industry's change during this period, as it shucked
its sail-and-oar, hook-and-line origins to embrace mechanized power
and propulsion, more sophisticated business practices, and
political engagement. Books, films, and the media have long
portrayed the Yankee fisherman's hard-scrabble existence, as he
faced brutal weather on the open seas and unnecessary governmental
restrictions. As McKenzie contends, this simplistic view has long
betrayed commercial fisheries' sophisticated legislative campaigns
in Washington, DC, as they sought federal subsidies and relief and,
eventually, fewer constricting regulations. This clash between
fisheries' representation and their reality still grips fishing
communities today as they struggle to navigate age-old trends of
fleet consolidation, stock decline, and intense competition.
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