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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0778750728
• ISBN13: 9780778750727
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Crabtree Classics
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6