Life in a fishing community

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boudreau, Hélène, Author.

Boudreau, Hâeláene., Author.

Series:

Learn about rural life Life in a fishing community

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fishing--Nova Scotia--Juvenile literature.

Fishing.

Fishing villages--Nova Scotia--Juvenile literature.

Fishing villages.

Lunenburg (N.S.)--Juvenile literature.

Lunenburg (N.S.).

Nova Scotia.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Crabtree Pub Co 2010

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This title looks at offshore fishing. Around the coast of much of North America, fishing stocks have greatly declined as a result of overfishing, pollution, and global warming. Nova Scotia, in the northeast of Canada, once had a huge fishing industry. In 1753, people from Germany, Switzerland, and France came from Europe to set up colony at Lunenburg on the coast. They soon set up a fishing and shipbuilding industry. The community grew until about 1980, when the fishing industry largely stopped. Since then, the community has had to reinvent itself. It is still largely based on the old industries, but tourism is as important.

Contents:

A rural fishing town

Types of fishing

Types of fish and shellfish

Fishing in North America

Welcome to Lunenburg

Daily life

A lobster-fishing family

On the boats

When the boats come in

At the factory

Through the year

Changing lifestyles

Fishing around the world

Facts and figures.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-7787-9268-4