About the Author

Rosemary E. Ommer heads the Coasts Under Stress Research project Team. She is the SSHRC grants facilitator and co-director, Institute for Social Ecological Studies, University of Victoria.

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Reviews

"There has been, until recently, a lamentable ignorance among historians of the British North American fisheries. [This study], erected on a firm basis of documentary sources, [is] an entirely original contribution." Julian Gwyn, Department of History, University of Ottawa. "Ommer does not write 'thick history' about the Gaspe fishery, but underscores, rather, the way in which some key Jersey merchants used the cod fishery to enhance their economic status. This analysis of the symbiotic relationship of Jersey and the Gaspe makes a significant contribution to Staple Literature. George Rawlyk, Department of History, Queen's University.