Cod - The Ecological History of the Atlantic Fisheries

Cod: The Ecological History of the Atlantic Fisheries

2008 | 578 | ISBN: 1550812270 , 1550812254 | PDF | 184 Mb

There are places and species that have become inextricably linked in human history and in the human mind have taken on mythic proportions. This is not to say that these same species occur nowhere else, or that they are the most abundant or important, although they may be. But somehow the animal comes to symbolize and define the place.In this way, the wildebeest symbolizes the Serengeti Plains of Tanzania, the polar bear the Arctic, finches the Galapagos Islands, the panda China, and wild salmon the northern regions of the Pacific Ocean. But there is no stronger definition, no stronger attachment or symbolism, than Newfoundland and Labrador with the Atlantic cod....