A 'very dertermined opposition to the law': Conservation, angling leases, and social conflict in the Canadian Atlantic salmon fishery, 1867-1914

Environmental History

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 436-463

  Parenteau, Bill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISHERY MANAGEMENT; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; SALMONID FISHERY; SPORT FISHING;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

SALMO SALAR; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 4544272035     PISSN: 10845453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3985768     Document Type: Article

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