Casting the net

Early Atlantic fisheries and colonial expansion, 15-16th centuries

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4464152
AutoresJ Bouchard (0000-0001-8139-9508, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen28
Número1
Páginas160-177
Fecha de publicación2022-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTempo (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1413-7704 • E-ISSN: 1980-542X
EditorialFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/tem-1980-542x2022v280109
OpenAlexW4226342953
SCIELO_PIDS1413-77042022000100160
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas33

This article explores the role played by commercial, oceanic fisheries in European expansion into the Atlantic basin across the 15th-16th centuries. The article uses the examples of Iceland, Rio do Ouro and Terra Nova as representative of the new fishing operations, and explains how they functioned as resource extraction systems. In looking at this history, it argues that these fisheries served as crucial food production centers, forms of colonial occupation, fuel sources for expansion, and new resource frontiers. This article ultimately suggests that the new Atlantic fisheries were crucial to the construction of a new European world-ecology in the early period of Atlantic expansion, and formed a vital part of the new colonial systems

Ancient history · Archaeology · Atlantic World · Biology · Colonialism · Economics · Economy · Fisheries management · Fishery · Fishing · Geography · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History