Inventing the Grand Banks: A deep chart: Humanities GIS, Cartesian, and literary perceptions of the north-west Atlantic fishery ca 1500-1800.

ABSTRACT: As a feature of the Fish Revolution (1400-1700), the early modern "invention" of the Grand Banks in literary and cartographical documents facilitated a massive and unprecedented extraction of cod from the waters of the north Atlantic and created the Cod/Sack trade Triangle. This overlapped with the southern Atlantic Slave, Sugar, and Tobacco Triangle to capitalise modern European and North American societies. In 1719, Pierre de Charlevoix claimed that the Grand Banks was "properly a mountain, hid under water," and noted its cod population "seems to equal that of the grains of sand which cover this bank." However, two centuries later in 1992, in the face of the collapse of the fishery, and fearing its extinction, a moratorium was placed on five centuries of harvesting Grand Banks cod. The i

SUBMITTER: Travis C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9286359 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature