Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History, 1783-1933

by Margaret Beattie Bogue

Book Overview

Fishing the Great Lakes is a sweeping history of the destruction of the once-abundant fisheries of the great "inland seas" that lie between the United States and Canada. Though lake trout, whitefish, freshwater herring, and sturgeon were still teeming as late as 1850, Margaret Bogue documents here how overfishing, pollution, political squabbling, poor public policies, and commercial exploitation combined to damage the fish populations even...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029916764X
• ISBN13: 9780299167646
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Fishing the Great Lakes

This is a thorough and very well researched and documented environmental history of the fishing business (commercial and recreational)in the Great Lakes. The author does an excellent job of explaining in exacting detail the impact of human exploitation - specifically fishing - on the Great Lakes area. As a trained historian I can vouch for the immense amount of research that went into writing this excellent book. My only critique is that at times the writing can be somewhat dry and redundant. Overall it is an outstanding environmental history book.