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From Wealth To Poverty: The Rise And Fall Of Cod Around Mount Desert Island, Natalie Springuel, Bill Leavenworth, Karen Alexander
From Wealth To Poverty: The Rise And Fall Of Cod Around Mount Desert Island, Natalie Springuel, Bill Leavenworth, Karen Alexander
Maine Sea Grant Publications
The history of cod fishing in the Gulf of Maine, particularly around Mount Desert Island and the Down East coast, begins with a tremendous diversity and volume of fish and ends in a marine ecological tragedy. It is a story of decline that cannot be told in isolation from farming and timber harvesting or from other fisheries. But it is also a story of people. Many thousands of people around Mount Desert Island in the last four hundred years have built their lives around cod and other fish. Cod drew settlers to the region, provided work in the fishery and …
Explorations, Vol. 5, No. 2, Kathleen Lignell, Mary Beth Pinto, Susan White, James M. Acheson, Mary Lee, John Field, Eric Beenfeldt, Robert Shepard, M. W. Blumenstock
Explorations, Vol. 5, No. 2, Kathleen Lignell, Mary Beth Pinto, Susan White, James M. Acheson, Mary Lee, John Field, Eric Beenfeldt, Robert Shepard, M. W. Blumenstock
Explorations — A Journal of Research
Articles include:
Cover: Brian McLain of New Harbor, measuring a V-notched lobster; slide taken by Robert C. Bayer, University of Maine Professor of Animal and Veterinary Sciences.
"April is Aquaculture Month Guest Editorial," by Kathleen Lignell
"Hospital Project Teams: Gaining Cooperation," by Mary Beth Pinto
"The Maine Lobster Institute: Science and Industry Working Together," by Susan White
"The Theory of Common Property Resources: Scientific Law or Myth?" by James M. Acheson
"What do Seedless Watermelons and Triploid Oysters have in Common?" by Mary Lee
"Technology and the Competitive Edge," by John Field and Eric Beenfeldt
"Growing our State Tree Faster: …