The Aquatic Frontier: Oysters and Aquaculture in the Progressive Era

Although few remember their former significance, oysters were one of the largest U.S. fisheries at their peak...
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Author: Samuel P. Hanes
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The Aquatic Frontier: Oysters and Aquaculture in the Progressive Era by Hanes, Samuel P.

The Aquatic Frontier: Oysters and Aquaculture in the Progressive Era

€59,99

The Aquatic Frontier: Oysters and Aquaculture in the Progressive Era

€59,99
Author: Samuel P. Hanes
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Although few remember their former significance, oysters were one of the largest U.S. fisheries at their peak in the late nineteenth century. As the fishery industrialized on-and offshore, oyster farms and canning factories spread along the Eastern Seaboard, with overharvesting becoming increasingly common. During the Progressive Era, state governments founded new agencies to cope with this problem and control this expanding economy. Regulators faced a choice: keep elaborate conservation systems based on common property rights or develop new ones with private, hatchery-stocked aquaculture farms. The tradition-preserving solution won, laying the groundwork for modern oyster management.

The Aquatic Frontier explores the forms this debate took between 1870 and 1920 in law enforcement, legislative advising, natural science, and oyster cartography. Samuel P. Hanes argues that the effort to centralize and privatize the industry failed due to a lack of understanding of the complex social-ecological systems in place-a common dilemma for environmental managers in this time period and for fisheries management confronting dangers from dwindling populations today.

Author: Samuel P. Hanes
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 05/23/2019
Pages: 246
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781625344137


Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2019

About the Author
SAMUEL P. HANES is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Maine.

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