Eating the Ocean: Seafood and Consumer Culture in Canada Volume 2

by Brian Payne

Book Overview

During the first half of the twentieth century, Canadian fisheries regularly produced more fish than markets could absorb, driving down profits and wages. To address this, both industry and government sought to stimulate domestic consumption via increased advertising. In Eating the Ocean Brian Payne explores how government-funded marketing called upon Canadian housewives to prepare more seafood meals to improve family health and aid an industry central...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0228015987
• ISBN13: 9780228015987
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"