Research Catalog

Title

Empty nets : how greed and politics wiped out the world's greatest fishery / Gus Etchegary, with Stephanie Porter.

Author

Etchegary, Gus, 1924-

Publication

Portugal Cove-St. Philip's, Newfoundland and Labrador : Boulder Publications, c2013.

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Additional Authors

Porter, Stephanie.

Description

303 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Etchegary, Augustine, 1926-
• Fishery Products International
• Atlantic cod fisheries > Closures > Atlantic Coast (Canada)
• Atlantic cod fisheries > Government policy > Atlantic Coast (Canada)
• Fishery policy > Atlantic Coast (Canada)
• Fishery management > Atlantic Coast (Canada)
• Overfishing > Atlantic Coast (Canada)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part 1: Early years. State of the resource 1: Moses Harvey, 1900 -- The Basque beginning -- War and rescue: The end of childhood -- Mining, military, Monroe: Settling on a career -- Part 2: On the fish plant floor. State of the resource 2: The Walsh report, 1953 -- Arthur Monroe and the first fish plants -- The post-war years: Matters of equipment and supply -- From the west, Canada; from the east, the European fishing armada -- The Burin years -- Part 3: Into the boardroom. State of the resource 3: Wilfred Templeman, 1966 -- We had to find more fish -- The ins and outs of ICNAF and NAFO -- Pushing for fish-plant productivity -- SOFA: major success and heartbreaking failure -- Finally, a victory: The Spanish pair trawler experiment -- Struggles of the Canadian Saltfish Corporation -- 1970s: False optimism and asinine political decisions -- A personal price -- Trade meetings and trade-offs -- The situation deteriorates: Ottawa barges in -- Fishery Products International is born -- The evolution of FPI -- Part 4: Advocacy. State of the resource 4: The Harris Report, 1990 -- The cod moratorium hits -- Since the moratorium: a host of damning decisions -- Looking back and ahead.

ISBN

• 1927099234 (pbk.)
• 9781927099230 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 858716685
• SCSB-11607016

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library