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

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 ...

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