Fishing Measures

Disponibilité:
Ebook en format EPUB. Disponible pour téléchargement immédiat après la commande.

Protection:
Filigrane

Année de parution:
2023

ISBN-13: 9781894725996

<p><em>Fishing Measures</em> investigates the introduction of fisheries science to Newfoundland’s saltfishery between the 1880s and 1930s. Banoub argues that during this period fishers’ embodied knowledge came to be seen as less reliable and authoritative than modern scientific state management. <em>Fishing Measures</em> situates this crucial shift in the history of capitalism, showing how the development of abstract scientific knowledge is integral to capitalist value relations. <br /></p>

<p><em>Fishing Measures</em> trawls a variety of archival sources to document the introduction of scientific knowledge to the extraction, processing, and consumption of saltfish. The book lucidly documents scientific developments on subjects ranging from artificial propagation, to curing techniques, to cod liver oil production. <em>Fishing Measures</em> makes an invaluable contribution to contemporary debates regarding relationships between capitalism, the environment, and science.</p>