Life in a fishing community
By: Hélène Boudreau.
Series: Learn about rural life
Publisher: Crabtree Pub. Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: St. Catharines, Ont; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780778750727; 9780778750857
Subjects: Fishing -- Nova Scotia -- Juvenile literature; Fishing villages -- Nova Scotia -- Juvenile literature; Fishing -- Nova Scotia; Fishing villages -- Nova Scotia; Lunenburg (N.S.) -- Juvenile literature; Lunenburg (N.S.); Nova Scotia
Genres: Juvenile literature
Description: This title looks at offshore fishing. Around the coast of much of North America, fishing stocks have greatly declined as a result of overfishing, pollution, and global warming. Nova Scotia, in the northeast of Canada, once had a huge fishing industry. In 1753, people from Germany, Switzerland, and France came from Europe to set up colony at Lunenburg on the coast. They soon set up a fishing and shipbuilding industry. The community grew until about 1980, when the fishing industry largely stopped. Since then, the community has had to reinvent itself. It is still largely based on the old industries, but tourism is as important.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 32).
Table of contents: title: A rural fishing town; title: Types of fishing; title: Types of fish and shellfish; title: Fishing in North America; title: Welcome to Lunenburg; title: Daily life; title: A lobster-fishing family; title: On the boats; title: When the boats come in; title: At the factory; title: Through the year; title: Changing lifestyles; title: Fishing around the world; title: Facts and figures.