Download or read book The Crisis of the Fisheries in Newfoundland and Labrador and the Notion of the Common Good in David Hollenbach written by Bertha Yetman and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis offers an extended theological reflection on the notion of the common good, in light of the decimation of the world's largest cod fishery in the waters off the northeast coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. Drawing on Church and local political history, this thesis argues that the theological notion of the common good would have provided the theological perspective for Catholic Church-local leaders to see this socio-economic-ecological crisis as a spiritual crisis, a one which summoned the active engagement of the Church. The destruction of the northern cod fishery in the latter half of the twentieth century is considered through the lens of David Hollenbach's reinterpreted notion of the common good in Catholic social tradition. Hollenbach's common good re-envisioned, offers a way of articulating and reflecting on the theological-ethical insufficiency of the local Church's response to this socio-economic-ecological-political-spiritual tragedy. Despite the long-standing tradition of the Catholic Church to interpret, define and advance the needs of the common good of all humanity, that Vatican II had happened, and was followed by more than fifteen years of Canadian Catholic Bishops social justice statements, Newfoundland Church leaders in the late twentieth century, did not see it appropriate to become involved in this immense political, socio-economic-ecological, cultural-spiritual travesty of justice. Hollenbach's common good reinterpreted presses this Church-local to be the people of God, and awaken to the spirit of aggiornamento, affirmed at Vatican II. Active commitment to Catholic social teachings on respect for human dignity, love, solidarity, sharing, and mutual responsibility, can only empower this Church by the sea to unite its aspirations with the needs of the common good of these maritime people.
Download or read book The Crisis of the Fisheries in Newfoundland and Labrador and the Notion of the Common Good in David Hollenbach written by Bertha Marie Yetman and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis offers an extended theological reflection on the notion of the common good, in light of the decimation of the world's largest cod fishery in the waters off the northeast coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. Drawing on Church and local political history, this thesis argues that the theological notion of the common good would have provided the theological perspective for Catholic Church-local leaders to see this socio-economic-ecological crisis as a spiritual crisis, a one which summoned the active engagement of the Church. The destruction of the northern cod fishery in the latter half of the twentieth century is considered through the lens of David Hollenbach's reinterpreted notion of the common good in Catholic social tradition. Hollenbach's common good re-envisioned, offers a way of articulating and reflecting on the theological-ethical insufficiency of the local Church's response to this socio-economic-ecological-political-spiritual tragedy. Despite the long-standing tradition of the Catholic Church to interpret, define and advance the needs of the common good of all humanity, that Vatican II had happened, and was followed by more than fifteen years of Canadian Catholic Bishops social justice statements, Newfoundland Church leaders in the late twentieth century, did not see it appropriate to become involved in this immense political, socio-economic-ecological, cultural-spiritual travesty of justice. Hollenbach's common good reinterpreted presses this Church-local to be the people of God, and awaken to the spirit of aggiornamento, affirmed at Vatican II. Active commitment to Catholic social teachings on respect for human dignity, love, solidarity, sharing, and mutual responsibility, can only empower this Church by the sea to unite its aspirations with the needs of the common good of these maritime people
Download or read book A View of the Rise Progress and Present State of the Newfoundland Fishery written by and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Managed Annihilation written by Dean Bavington and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Newfoundland and Labrador cod fishery was once the most successful commercial fishery in the world. When it collapsed in 1992, many pointed to failures in management, such as uncontrolled harvesting, as likely culprits. Managed Annihilation makes the case that the idea of natural resource management itself was the problem. The collapse occurred when the fisheries were state-managed and still, two decades later, there is no recovery in sight. Although the collapse raised doubts among policy-makers about their ability to understand and control nature, their ultimate goal of control through management has not wavered and has been transferred from wild fish to fishermen and farmed cod.
Download or read book Servants of the Fish written by Myron Arms and published by Upper Access Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the last of the northern cod disappeared from the fishing banks of eastern North America during the waning years of the 20th century, more than just fish faced the threat of extinction. In communities all around the island of Newfoundland, thousands of fishermen and their families suddenly found themselves confronted by a similar threat. Servants of the Fish is the story of these people, who are at once the perpetrators and the victims of this event. As he did in his bestselling Riddle of the Ice, Arms employs the drama of the voyage to bring readers face to face with the people and the geography of the tale he tells. It is the tale of a particular time and place. Yet it is also an allegory of sorts--about predators and prey, about greed and denial, and about our collective ability as human beings to destroy natural systems once thought to be infinite.
Download or read book A Fishery for Modern Times written by Miriam Wright and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2001-12-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1990s, the northern cod populations off the coast of Newfoundland had become so depleted that the federal government placed a moratorium on commercial fishing. The impact was devastating, both for Newfoundland's economy and for local fishing communities. Today, although this natural resource – exploited commercially for over 500 years – appears to be returning in diminished numbers, many fisheries scientists and fishers question whether the cod will ever return to its former abundance. In A Fishery for Modern Times, Miriam Wright argues that the recent troubles in the fishery can be more fully understood by examining the rise of the industrial fishery in the mid-twentieth century. The introduction of new harvesting technologies and the emergence of 'quick freezing', in the late 1930s, eventually supplanted household production by Newfoundland's fishing families. While the new technologies increased the amount of fish caught in the northwest Atlantic, Wright argues that the state played a critical role in fostering and financing the industrial frozen fish sector. Many bureaucrats and politicians, including Newfoundland's premier, Joseph Smallwood, believed that making the Newfoundland fishery 'modern', with centralization, technology, and expertise, would transform rural society, solving deep-seated economic and social problems. A Fishery for Modern Times examines the ways in which the state, ideologies of development, and political, economic, and social factors, along with political actors and fishing company owners, contributed to the expansion of the industrial fishery from the 1930s through the 1960s. While the promised prosperity never fully materialized, the continuing reliance on approaches favouring high-tech, big capital solutions put increasing pressure on cod populations in the years that followed. As Wright concludes, 'We can no longer afford to view the fisheries resources as "property" of the state and industry, to do with it as they choose. That path had led only to devastation of the resource, economic instability, and great social upheaval.'
Download or read book When the Fish are Gone written by Craig T. Palmer and published by Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood Pub.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gulf Coast fisheries off Northwest Newfoundland provide a graphic example of the social and biological consequences of the failure to create conditions that would allow for fishing on a sustainable basis. This book shows how an ecological crisis has produced a social crisis threatening the viability of fishers, the fish plants where they sold their fish, and the communities in which they live. It is set in the context of the North Atlantic fisheries and of primary resource producing rural areas in mature capitalist societies.
Download or read book Lament for an Ocean written by Michael Harris and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The northern cod have been almost wiped out. Once the most plentiful fish on the Grand Banks off the coast of Newfoundland, the cod is now on the brink of extinction, and tens of thousands of people in Atlantic Canada have been left without work by a 1992 moratorium on fishing the stock. Today, the Pacific salmon stocks are in similar trouble – victims of the same blind, stupid greed. Angry, accusatory fingers have been pointed at various possible culprits for the collapse of the cod – at the Spanish and Portuguese, who for hundreds of years sent ever-bigger fleets to the Grand Banks; at the factory-freezer trawlers, which “vacuumed” the ocean floor for the prized fish; at those inshore fishermen who circumvented the rules governing the fishery; at the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans, which is responsible for managing the fishery; at the harp seal, the cod’s competitor for food, whose numbers have exploded in recent years; even at Nature, for lowering the temperature of the ocean. In Lament for an Ocean, the award-winning true-crime writer Michael Harris investigates the real causes of the most wanton destruction of a natural resource in North American history since the buffalo were wiped off the face of the prairies. The story he carefully unfolds is the sorry tale of how, despite the repeated and urgent warnings of ocean scientists, the northern cod was ruthlessly exploited.
Download or read book State Intervention and the Newfoundland Fisheries written by Peter R. Sinclair and published by Aldershot, Hampshire : Avebury. This book was released on 1987 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Northwest Newfoundland Fishery Crisis written by Craig Palmer and published by [St. John's, Nfld.] : Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland. This book was released on 1992 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Question of Survival written by Peter R. Sinclair and published by St. John's : Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland. This book was released on 1988 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Do They Call a Fisherman written by Nicole Gerarda Power and published by Social and Economic Studies. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newfoundland fisheries have been transformed from an industry once dominated by petty commodity production and merchant-fisher relations to one dominated by private enterprise and corporate capitalism. State efforts to enclose the fisheries through boat quotas and to limit participation through a core classification system demonstrate a shift in values. Science-based regulation, in which the estimates of fisheries scientists were overly optimistic, led to the collapse of the cod fishery. The recent turn to a fishery based on classical economics, emphasizing professionalization, has left inshore fishers caught between two value systems. The traditional view valorizes hard work and local knowledge about the fishing environment; the modern view embraces technology, rationalization and professionalization. In What Do They Call a Fisherman Nicole Power examines, through a feminist lens, how this tension between two views -- between a way of life and a way to make a living -- and how these changes have affected men (and women) in the Bonavista and Trinity Bays inshore fishery. Has a "crisis of fish" and the loss or diminution of livelihood led to a "crisis of masculinity"? Through extensive interviews with fishers and fish-plant workers, the author discovers that men have responded to restructuring in complex ways that are mediated, enabled and constrained by their class and gender positions, and by maritime cultural values and practices.
Download or read book No Fish and Our Lives written by Cabot Martin and published by St. John's, Nfld. : Creative Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Decay of Trade written by David Alexander and published by [St. John's] : Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland. This book was released on 1977 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Controlling Common Property written by Ralph Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The results and a conceptual analysis of the nature of property relations governing common-property resources, based on interviews with fishermen in rural Newfoundland. The topics include the historical context, the ruling metaphors, the economics of survival in small village, community control and conflict in medium-sized communities, and competition for scare resources in a large fishing center. Paper edition (unseen), $22.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The State Goes Fishing written by Peter R. Sinclair and published by St. John's : Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland. This book was released on 1985 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Newfoundland and Labrador Fishery written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication provides an overview of the Newfoundland fishing industry, discussing such topics as fisheries diversification, amount & value of landings by species, fishery processing policy, the invertebrate & groundfish sectors, fisheries research, fish quality improvement and fishery education & training initiatives, the new fish price settlement mechanism, and opportunities & challenges in the industry.
