Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Legacies from the wilderness
  • pt. 1. The rise of commercial fishing, 1800-1893
  • 2. Lake Ontario salmon in an early agricultural-commercial economy
  • 3. Patterns of growth through 1872
  • 4. The expansive heyday, 1875-1893
  • 5. A. Booth and Company bids for Great Lakes dominance
  • 6. Fishers of the Great Lakes, 1850-1893
  • 7. The fishers and the fish
  • pt. 2. Great Lakes waters in a developing drainage basin, 1815-1900
  • 8. Agriculture, lumbering, mining, and the changing fish habitat
  • 9. Commerce, community growth, industrial-urban development, and the changing fish habitat
  • 10. The fish react : changing species in changing waters
  • pt. 3. Policy makers and the Great Lakes fisheries, 1801-1896
  • 11. The first regulators : the provinces and the states
  • 12. Changing ideas : the United States and the Great Lakes Fishery
  • 13. Canada's regulated fishery, 1868-1888
  • 14. Charles Hibbert Tupper and the new broom, 1888-1896
  • 15. To save the fish : the crisis of the 1890s and the Canadian-American Joint Commission of 1892
  • pt. 4. Toward Lamprey Eve : the Great Lakes fisheries, 1896-1933
  • 16. Commercial fishing : from prosperity to recession
  • 17. Policy makers and the ever-widening stain
  • 18. Public policy and the declining fish resource
  • 19. The end of an era
  • 20. Reflections.