Life in a Fishing Community

by Helene Boudreau

Book Overview

This title looks at offshore fishing. Around the coast of much of North America, fishing stocks have greatly declined as a result of overfishing, pollution, and global warming. Nova Scotia, in the northeast of Canada, once had a huge fishing industry. In 1753, people from Germany, Switzerland, and France came from Europe to set up colony at Lunenburg on the coast. They soon set up a fishing and shipbuilding industry. The community grew until about...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 077875085X
• ISBN13: 9780778750857
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Crabtree Classics
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.2" x 10.7"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6