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A Science on the Scale: The Rise of Canadian Atlantic Fisheries Biology, 1898-1939.

Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies
Publication Date: 22-DEC-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Jennifer M. Hubbard. A Science on the Scale: The Rise of Canadian Atlantic Fisheries Biology, 1898-1939. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. x + 351 pp. $65.00 cloth.

Canada's Atlantic fishery has long been a topic of historical interest. Ever since Harold Innis's monumental study, however, scholars have often shaped their histories along economic constructs. Jennifer Hubbard takes a new look at the history of fishery management in Canada by examining the rise of fishery biology as an agent of political and administrative authority. Hubbard's central goal is to place fishery science within a proper historical context that understands how international trends, political agendas, economic motives, and individual personalities all combined to create a fishery Biological Board that was at once a reflection of the international scientific community and something that was uniquely Canadian. Certainly Canadian fishery scientists learned a lot from their Norwegian, English, and American counterparts, but the political and economic atmosphere within Canada shaped the Biological Board into a bureaucratic construct that often became bogged down in the murky world of Canadian politics.

Early in the work Hubbard states that "since...

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